Who's hiring legal counsels in Germany

What Germany employers ask for

Share of the 40 most recent legal counsel postings that mention each skill. Read it as a checklist for your resume.

• collaboration23%
• negotiation18%
• compliance15%
• contract-drafting10%
• leadership10%
• risk-management10%
• m-and-a5%
• gdpr5%
• litigation5%
• ms-office3%
• lang-german3%
• procurement3%

Where these roles are, inside Germany

Locations exactly as the employers wrote them on the posting.

1. 1Berlin8 roles
2. 2Germany7 roles
3. 3Eschborn, HE, Germany3 roles
4. 4Hanover, NDS, Germany3 roles
5. 5Verl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany2 roles
6. 6Munich, BY, Germany2 roles
7. 7Hannover, NDS, Germany2 roles
8. 8Frankfurt am Main, , Germany1 role

Recently posted

The newest legal counsel openings in the feed for Germany.

• Commercial Legal Counsel (Contractor)

  Liftoff

  Germany

• (Senior) Legal Counsel (m/w/d) Gesellschaftsrecht - REF97642J

  Continental

  Hannover, NDS, Germany

• (Senior) Legal Counsel (m/w/d)

  Octopus Energy Group

  München (DE)

• Senior Legal Counsel (f/m/d)

  Awin

  Berlin, Berlin

• Senior Compliance Officer - Regulatory and Advisory

  Bitvavo

  Headquarters, Germany

• Legal Counsel - IT & Data Protection

  AMBOSS

  Berlin

• Legal Counsel Claims / Kfz-Schadensjurist (m/w/d)

  SIXT

  Munich, BY, Germany

• Volljurist als (Junior) Legal Counsel (d/w/m) – Vertragsrecht & Compliance

  Rexel

  RemoteMünchen, , Germany (Remote)

• General Counsel

  SoSafe

  Cologne

• Commercial Legal Counsel (Contractor)

  Liftoff

  Germany

• Environmental Compliance Manager (m/w/d) – PFAS & Kreislaufwirtschaft

  PFASuiki GmbH

  Oberhaching, Germany

• Data Privacy Compliance Specialist

  DeepHealth

  RemoteRemote job, Germany

Legal Counsels in other markets

The same role, counted the same way, everywhere else we have coverage.

1. 1United States380 open
2. 2United Kingdom43 open
3. 3France42 open

Other roles hiring in Germany

• Software Engineers842
• Account Executives624
• Consultants487
• Accountants374
• Project Managers309
• Marketing Managers284
• Sales Managers277
• Product Managers273
• Sales Representatives234
• Machine Learning Engineers219

Legal Counsels in Germany: the questions people ask

How many legal counsels jobs are open in Germany?

40 right now, 10% of them remote. The number comes from live postings on company career pages and refreshes hourly, so it reflects roles still accepting applications rather than an all-time archive.

Which companies hire legal counsels in Germany?

The most active right now are ContiTech, N26, Liftoff, Continental, AMBOSS. ContiTech alone has 6 open legal counsel roles.

What skills do Germany employers ask legal counsels for?

Across 40 recent postings, the most requested are collaboration (23% of ads), negotiation (18% of ads), compliance (15% of ads), contract-drafting (10% of ads), leadership (10% of ads).

How current is this data?

Counts refresh hourly. Postings drop out automatically when they expire, and the month-over-month figure compares today against a snapshot recorded 30 days ago, so a rise or fall reflects real movement rather than a change in how we count.