Legal and Compliance Manager (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Munich Headquarters, Remote - Germany

Why we need you

Maltego is an all-in-one platform used globally by industry experts, analysts, and law enforcement agencies to help secure the internet, protect organizations and individuals against cyber-crime, and support complex investigations across diverse use cases.

We are seeking an experienced Legal and Compliance Manager (m/w/d) to join our dynamic legal team. As our new colleague, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our company's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements while providing strategic legal advice across our business operations. With a focus on commercial contracts, data protection, and regulatory compliance, you will help shape our legal framework as we continue to grow. This position requires expertise in technology law, commercial contracts, and data protection regulations, combined with strong, analytical and communication skills.

What to expect

In this role, you will:

Lead the drafting, negotiation, and management of complex commercial agreements, including SaaS/PaaS license agreements, strategic partnership contracts, service agreements, statements of work, data processing agreements (DPAs), and NDAs, with particular focus on German and EU legal requirements
Providing advice and guidance on the introduction of new tech and data initiatives
Provide data protection support (e.g. identify internal data privacy gaps, internal syncs when new products are launched/improved) with the assistance of the external Data Protection Officer
Be a trusted advisor and business partner across the company by providing high quality legal, compliance and commercial advice to the business
Provide legal advice and guidance on all topics under the scope of regulatory compliance with an emphasis on Anti-Bribery, Export Control, Sanctions and evaluating potential legal risks
Monitor legislative developments in relevant compliance areas and implement new legal requirements, including in the field of AI.
Develop, implement, and maintain various in-house regulatory and compliance policies and procedures (including whistleblowing, anti-bribery & corruption, AML, conflict of interest, competition / antitrust, export control, etc.) to mitigate compliance risks, handling all topics in alignment with other internal units and coordinate investigations.

Your profile in short

A fully qualified lawyer (Volljurist) with 3-5 years of relevant professional experience, gained either in a law firm's technology practice or in-house legal department of a technology company, with demonstrated expertise in commercial contracts, data protection law, and compliance matters
German law degree (Erstes and Zweites Staatsexamen) with above-average grades, and demonstrated understanding of operational and business demands in an international technology environment
Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills
Analytical, creative, problem solving, and business-focused personality
Knowledge of IT law, GDPR, and international data privacy regulations is required, with experience in software licensing and SaaS agreements being particularly valuable & data privacy law is a plus
Fluent in both German and English, with excellent command of legal terminology in both languages; additional languages are a plus

Why you will love Maltego

Maltego is a scale-up company. We provide you with the benefits and security of larger corporations coupled with the dynamic and fast-paced work environment and flat hierarchies of a start-up. We are proud to have a large global community that loves our product because it helps to solve the investigations that are most important.

Here are some of the reasons why you will love Maltego:

Insights into the daily operations of a fast-growing tech scale-up
Opportunity to quickly take over responsibility and make a direct and long-lasting impact
Motivated and highly international team

At Maltego, we are committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our organization. We are an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Location

Munich office or Remote in European countries

Required documents / information

Please submit a CV and a cover letter explaining your motivation to be part of Maltego.

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About us

Maltego empowers investigators to speed up and increase the precision of their investigations through easy data integration in a single interface, aided by powerful visualization and collaborative capabilities to quickly zero in on relevant information. Since its development in 2008 Maltego has empowered millions of investigations worldwide. Maltego is used by a broad audience, from security professionals and pen testers to forensic investigators, investigative journalists, and market researchers. Headquartered in Munich, Maltego has grown to over 100 employees in Germany and works with customers including the including the Federal Bureau of Investigations, INTERPOL, and major tech and service companies including half of the DOW 30.

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Your application

Thank you for considering a career at Maltego. Please fill out the following form. In case you are experiencing problems with the document upload, mail your documents to jobs@maltego.com.