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About the Role
As a Legal Counsel (m/w/d), you will be closely involved with the business, actively shaping the legal aspects of our commercial projects. You will advise our teams on contracts, collaborations, new business models, and rights and licensing issues, guiding projects from initial concept to implementation. Your role involves not only identifying risks but primarily finding pragmatic solutions that enable our business. You will collaborate closely with various departments and our international teams and companies, continuously developing our legal processes.
Responsibilities
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts, particularly client, service provider, framework, cooperation, and license agreements.
- Providing legal advice to internal stakeholders on new projects, partnerships, and commercial matters.
- Legally structuring complex collaborations and contract models with a focus on practical and economically sound solutions.
- Advising on rights and licensing issues related to content, creators, brands, and intellectual property.
- Independently advising on corporate and commercial law matters.
- Providing legal support for our consumer products activities, especially in licensing, merchandising, product collaborations, and other commercial partnerships.
- Developing contract standards, templates, and internal legal processes.
Requirements
- Relevant legal professional experience with a desire to actively shape rather than just legally review.
- Ability to work closely with the business, explain complex issues clearly, and combine legal diligence with pragmatism and economic understanding.
- Enthusiasm for a dynamic, international environment and topics at the intersection of content, creators, brands, licensing, and new business models.
- Completed both state examinations in law successfully.
- At least two years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience in independently drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts.
- Solid basic understanding of corporate law.
- Good economic understanding and a pragmatic, solution-oriented advisory approach.
- Structured and self-reliant way of working and enjoyment in developing standards and processes.
- Confident, clear communication and enjoyment in collaborating with various stakeholders.
Skills
- Contract drafting
- Contract review
- Contract negotiation
- Corporate law
- Commercial law
- Licensing
- Intellectual property
- Business development
- Legal process development
- German
- English
Location
- Amsterdam
- Antwerp
- Berlin
- Cologne
- Münster
- Paris
- Stockholm
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum two years of relevant professional experience
Education Level
- Completed both state examinations in law
About the Company
- We Are Era is a European community economy company focused on community-led relevance.
- We use data to understand what moves people and translate these insights into culturally relevant stories across platforms, formats, and markets.
- With offices in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Cologne, Münster, Paris, and Stockholm, our international team creates impactful and relevant stories tailored to communities across all platforms.
- We see ourselves as the shortest path to any community and subculture.
- Our projects range from TV productions and fictional series to branded formats on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and TikTok.
- We support and guide creators in building their own personal brands.
- Our international team of 400 employees speaks every language, from mainstream to subculture, from the Fridays for Future movement to K-Pop culture.