Compound Law is an AI-native law firm where human legal expertise and AI work hand in hand. We act as the outside legal team for fast-growing startups and scaleups: a dedicated point of contact, one-hour response times, and fixed prices instead of the billable hour.
Agents handle the research and drafting; our lawyers keep the judgment and the client relationship. You'll help lay the foundation of a new kind of firm, working directly with founders who come from both tech and law. If you want to practice at the top of your license instead of grinding out hours, this is your shot.
You own our commercial and compliance work end to end, alongside the AI agents: SaaS agreements, terms of service, NDAs, DPAs, GDPR, and the EU AI Act, drafted at machine speed and finished with your judgment. The role is deliberately open: commercial and compliance can sit with one person, or be split across two, each with their own focus.
You won't advise your clients in one-off snippets; you'll think like their General Counsel: proactive, commercially minded, and fluent in how their business actually works.
And you'll help build the firm rather than just work inside it: your standards, playbooks, and feedback to the agents make every next review sharper.
- Run your own client portfolio as the go-to person on every commercial legal question, backed by our one-hour response promise.
- Own commercial contracts from first draft to signature: SaaS and commercial agreements, terms of service, NDAs, supplier and partner deals, including redlining and negotiating with the other side.
- Advise on compliance day to day: GDPR, data processing, the EU AI Act, and sector-specific regulation, kept pragmatic and shippable rather than academic.
- Weigh risk in a startup context, prioritize by business impact, and decide what's standard and what needs to be escalated.
- Review and sharpen agent-drafted work, and set the quality bar the firm is measured against.
- Evolve our templates, playbooks, and clause libraries, turning your expertise into requirements for the agents, in direct collaboration with the founders.
- Spot advisory needs early, think beyond the single matter, and grow the client relationships.
- Fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist:in) or business lawyer (Wirtschaftsjurist:in) with at least 3 years' experience in commercial and technology law in Germany; fluent German and English.
- In-house experience is a must, for example as legal counsel or in-house lawyer at a startup, scaleup, or established company.
- Confident, hands-on practice in commercial contracts, with sound judgment on liability, IP, and data protection.
- Practical GDPR experience; genuine interest in the EU AI Act and adjacent regulation.
- A strong tech affinity is essential here: you like working with AI tools, not against them, and want a hand in shaping how they change legal work.
- A feel for startups: speed and pragmatism over perfectionism in the wrong places.
- You'd rather practice than administer, and own equity than climb a classic partner track.
- Competitive base salary as a fixed component, calibrated to your experience and profile.
- A variable component on top, tied to your personal goals and the firm's growth.
- Equity in the form of a stake in the technology company.
- New business you originate is rewarded on top, in cash.
- No billable-hours pressure: a real salary, not an hours quota.