mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes (annual average 2025). Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 140 million visits per month*. As a “one-stop shop,” mobile.de’s offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do.If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.
About the Role
We are looking for a passionate new team member to join us as a Senior Legal Counsel (d/f/m).
In this role, you will serve as a trusted legal partner to our business, product, and tech teams - advising on a wide range of legal matters, from commercial contracts and product compliance to IT law and digital regulation.
You will help the organisation move quickly without sacrificing legal rigour, translating complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance.
This is a hybrid position based in Berlin, Charlottenburg, offering flexibility to work both in-office and from home.
Job requirements
What We're Looking For
- Experience: Fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist:in) with 5+ years post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house role, ideally in a digital or tech-driven environment
What Sets You Apart
- Experience with product compliance
- A specialization or LL.M. in IT law, IP law, or unfair competition law
- Exposure to M&A transactions or post-merger integrations
- Legal Knowledge: Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: IT law, data protection, e-commerce, unfair competition law, or commercial contracts
- Product Mindset: You genuinely enjoy understanding how digital products and platform businesses work — not just the legal side of them
- Contract Expertise: Proven ability to independently review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements including platform terms, cooperation agreements, and supplier contracts
- Languages: Full professional proficiency in both German and English, written and spoken
- Communication: Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance with a high level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion
- Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a fast-moving digital environment where regulatory requirements and business priorities evolve rapidly
- Legal Tech: You're comfortable working with legal tech and AI-assisted legal tools, including legal prompting with large language models
Job responsibilities
You will be a trusted legal voice across the organisation — shaping how we build, what we launch, and how we grow responsibly.
Your Key Responsibilities:
1. Day-to-Day Legal Advice to the Business
- Provide timely, practical legal advice to internal stakeholders across Product & Technology, Marketing, Sales, and HR on a broad range of legal topics
- Act as the first point of contact for legal questions arising from daily business operations
- Advise on digital regulations including DSA, AI Act, Digital Fairness Act, GDPR, consumer rights, and unfair competition law — translating legal requirements into practical guidance
- Review, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts — cooperation agreements, platform terms, and supplier contracts
- Ensure all agreements comply with applicable regulations and mobile.de's internal standards
- Contribute to product reviews in close collaboration with Product and Tech, identifying and addressing legal risks early in the development process
- Embed legal awareness into the product lifecycle, supporting teams in building compliant products from the ground up
- Monitor the German and EU regulatory landscape and flag emerging risks to the relevant stakeholders
- Support the coordination of cross-functional initiatives across Finance, HR, Tax, Privacy, and InfoSec
- Manage external counsel where specialist input is needed
- Support M&A and integration workstreams where they arise
Benefits
Working at mobile.de comes with its perks! Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):
Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.
Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.
Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.
Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.
Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.
Enjoy working: Our well‑equipped office supports focused work and teamwork - plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connect
Flexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.
Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.
Family support: enhanced parental leave and family‑friendly policies to support all parents and careers.
Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.
Embracing AI: We're at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.
Growth and Development: We are a global organisation who truly believes in growing our people. To support this we offer lots of development and training opportunities and provide a budget for our team members.
Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).
mobile.de is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
(*Source: mobile.de Google Analytics Tracking, average per month January to December 2025)
Skills Required
- Fully qualified German lawyer (Volljurist:in)
- At least 5 years of post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house role
- Hands-on experience in IT law, data protection, e-commerce, unfair competition law, or commercial contracts
- Full professional proficiency in German and English, written and spoken
- Ability to independently review, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance
- Experience with legal tech and AI-assisted legal tools, including legal prompting with large language models
- Experience with product compliance
- Specialization or LL.M. in IT law, IP law, or unfair competition law
- Exposure to M&A transactions or post-merger integrations
- Experience in a digital or tech-driven environment
What We Do
mobile.de operates Germany’s largest online vehicle marketplace, connecting consumers and automotive dealers to buy and sell cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes. Founded in 1996, the company provides a one-stop shop with trustworthy, simple mobility solutions. Its platform serves around 20 million unique users each month, supports approximately 40,000 dealers, and carries about 1.6 million vehicle listings across Germany.
