(Senior) Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

cylib GmbH; Aachen; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A dynamic scale-up in Aachen is seeking a Head of Legal to establish and lead their legal department. This role requires a candidate with 5-10 years of legal experience, ideally in a start-up ecosystem, to ensure compliance and manage contracts. Join a youthful team that values responsibility and creative freedom to drive the future of sustainable battery recycling.

Leistungen

Creative freedom

Team spirit and family atmosphere

Qualifikationen

• 5–10 years of professional legal experience in fast-paced environments.
• Experience in setting up or shaping legal functions.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills in German and English.

Aufgaben

• Establish and lead the legal department of the company.
• Ensure legal compliance across business aspects.
• Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial contracts.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Jobbeschreibung

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• Your task will be to establish, structure, and lead the legal department of the company by designing and implementing internal processes and policies.
• Therefore, you act as the primary legal advisor to the management team and other departments and collaborate with external law firms and manage the legal budget.
• It is within your responsibility to ensure legal compliance across all aspects of the business, including corporate governance, employment, data protection, and regulatory issues.
• For this, you draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, supplier, customer, partnership agreements).
• You will handle legal risk assessment and mitigation strategies and support strategic business initiatives with legal insight, including M&A, fundraising, and international expansion.
• If applicable, there is the chance to lead and grow a team of legal professionals, providing mentorship and performance oversight.

Your profile

• You have 5–10 years of professional legal experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments — ideally in the start-up or scale-up ecosystem.
• You are experienced in setting up or significantly shaping legal functions within a company, ideally with leadership or team management skills.
• You have a strong commercial and pragmatic legal mindset with a hands-on execution style.
• You convince us with your excellent communication and negotiation skills (in German and English) and are able to work collaboratively across departments.
• It is a plus if you have relevant work experience and expertise in the field of European waste regulation.
• Additionally, you show us a high level of motivation and ownership, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach.

Why us?

• Working in a young and interdisciplinary scale-up team
• A lot of responsibility and creative freedom right from the start
• Team spirit and a family atmosphere

About us

cylib is a research-based German scaleup for holistic battery recycling - starting from discharging to recovery of all components of the lithium battery - that was founded in Aachen in 2022 by three visionary founders, including a female CEO.

Our process

The cylib process offers a complete end-to-end process from battery pack to green battery material by employing a combination of mechanical and thermal pre-treatments and an innovative water-based lithium and graphite recovery. Unlike incumbents, cylib can therefore recover battery materials such as lithium, graphite or manganese. The process was developed over several years of research at the renown RWTH Aachen University and offers an efficient, resource- and climate friendly recovery of all battery materials from end-of-life batteries.

cylib's technology enables the recovery of all battery components regardless of whether it is an end-of-life battery or not. Recovery of green secondary raw materials from the cylib process enables the realization of the true Circular Economy on the European market.

Interested?

Please upload your documents and answer the questions in the application form (annual gross salary expectations, a cover letter is not necessay). We look forward to receiving your application!