1NCE is a global IoT connectivity and software company offering connectivity and software solutions to IoT customers worldwide. Headquartered in Cologne with offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, 1NCE connects millions of IoT devices across more than 100 countries. We operate at the intersection of telecommunications, software, and enterprise technology — and we are scaling fast.
Our Legal team operates as a small, senior group that acts as a true business partner: commercial, pragmatic, and deeply integrated into the decisions that shape the company. We work across M&A, commercial contracts, data protection, employment, and disputes — across multiple jurisdictions and time zones.
We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our Legal team, reporting to the General Counsel. This is a hands-on, high-autonomy role for a lawyer who wants to work on genuinely complex commercial and data protection matters — not just review standard contracts.
The role is twofold. On the commercial side, you will draft, negotiate, and manage a broad portfolio of customer and vendor agreements across multiple jurisdictions, with a strong emphasis on technology and IoT-specific contract structures. On the data protection side, you will play a substantive role in 1NCE's privacy compliance program — anchored in GDPR, but extending to the other key jurisdictions in which we operate (including the US and Singapore), in close coordination with the team, the DPO and external counsel where appropriate.
You will work as part of a small legal team supporting global operations, which means a broad and shifting mandate: comfort getting involved across whatever the business needs, sound judgement on prioritisation, and a genuine interest in the IoT, telecommunications, software and cloud space are essential. You will have regular interaction with senior stakeholders across the business, own significant transactions and disputes. Syndikusrechtsanwalt status is preferred or obtainable.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Contracts
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Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of customer-facing agreements across multiple jurisdictions, including MSAs, SaaS and platform contracts.
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Oversee the contract lifecycle for customer agreements, leveraging existing automation, with a hands-on focus on larger and non-standard contracts and on keeping the underlying processes current across 1NCE's key markets in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific.
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Advise on jurisdiction-specific requirements and adapt standard contract frameworks for local law compliance across 1NCE's operating markets.
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Draft, review, and negotiate vendor and supply chain agreements.
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Support the commercial team by developing and maintaining standard customer contract templates, GTCs, negotiation playbooks, and pre-approved fallback positions.
Data Protection & Privacy-
Advise the business on GDPR compliance, working in close coordination with the DPO and CISO.
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Support developing, maintaining, and continuously improving 1NCE's privacy compliance framework — including ROPA, privacy policies and notices, consent and cookie mechanisms, internal data protection policies, data subject request handling, and vendor privacy reviews.
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Support privacy compliance across 1NCE's key jurisdictions beyond the EU (including the US and Singapore), coordinating with external counsel where local depth is required.
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Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements (DPAs), data transfer clauses, and joint controller arrangements as part of customer and vendor contract workflows.
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Support international data transfer compliance, including EU Standard Contractual Clauses and adequacy framework monitoring, and assist the DPO with TIAs and DPIAs where additional internal capacity is needed.
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Monitor and understand developments in EU data protection and tech regulation (including the EU AI Act, Data Act, ePrivacy and CRA) and translate them into practical guidance for the business.
Disputes & Risk-
Support the business on contentious commercial matters with customers, partners and suppliers through negotiation, settlement, and pre-litigation resolution, instructing and supervising external counsel where required.
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Identify, assess, and communicate legal risk to the business clearly and actionably.
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Support the development of internal compliance policies and risk frameworks.
Internal Partnering-
Act as trusted legal advisor to Sales, Product, IT, Security, Finance/Accounting and Operations.
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Work closely with the Legal team and internal stakeholders on high-priority matters and provide cover across the full legal team mandate.
Essential
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Fully qualified lawyer in Germany (Volljurist/in); Syndikusrechtsanwalt status preferred or obtainable.
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Minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience covering commercial / technology law and data protection, ideally combining law firm and in-house experience.
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Strong track record in drafting and negotiating customer-facing commercial agreements across multiple jurisdictions.
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Strong working knowledge of GDPR and demonstrated experience operationalising privacy compliance — e.g. ROPA, privacy notices, consent and cookie mechanisms, internal policies and data subject request processes — not solely in a contract-review context.
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Experience handling contentious commercial matters and negotiating settlements with customers, partners or suppliers.
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Comfortable working in a small team with a broad mandate and global scope, with a hands-on attitude and sound judgement on prioritisation.
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Genuine interest in the IoT, telecommunications, software and cloud space; prior in-house or law firm experience in these sectors is strongly preferred.
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Fluent in German and English — written and spoken. Both languages are used daily.
Highly Valued-
Experience managing multi-jurisdictional customer contract portfolios across Europe, the US and APAC (including Singapore).
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Familiarity with IoT-specific contract structures, connectivity platform agreements, or MVNO/MVNE arrangements.
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Working familiarity with non-EU privacy regimes (e.g. US state privacy laws, PDPA Singapore) at a level sufficient to coordinate with external counsel.
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Deeper knowledge of recent and emerging EU tech regulation (AI Act, Data Act, ePrivacy, CRA) and their practical impact on commercial and product workflows.
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Exposure to international data transfer compliance (SCCs, TIAs, DPF, CCPA) in a commercial contract context.
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A high-impact, high-autonomy role at a fast-scaling global IoT company.
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Regular interaction with senior leadership and involvement in strategically significant matters.
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A small, senior, internationally diverse legal team — no bureaucracy, no silos.
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Competitive compensation package.
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Flexible hybrid working from Cologne, Hamburg or elsewhere.
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A genuine opportunity to shape the commercial and data protection legal framework of a company building the infrastructure of the IoT economy.
Vladimir Kaiser
In case of any additional questions regarding the position: [email protected]
1NCE is set to change the IoT connectivity market forever. This requires courage, creativity and a unique team with special skills.
Are you ready to join us in shaping the future of the IoT? 1NCE offers you unique career opportunities in one of the fastest growing markets in the world.
At 1NCE,
we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
We value diversity, inclusion, and equity, and believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is a key driver of our success.
We strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.
We are dedicated to providing a fair and equitable hiring process that ensures all candidates are evaluated based on their qualifications, skills, and experience without bias or discrimination.
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