Senior Legal Counsel, Southern Europe

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.
Italy, Spain, France and Portugal are increasingly becoming part of Tesla's incredible success story in Europe, and its most important pillar for this is our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.
The Senior Legal Counsel, Southern Europe will be part of Tesla's EMEA legal team working on legal matters in Italy, Spain, France and Portugal, ranging from sales, service and marketing to commercial contracts, consumer protection and regulatory matters as well as Tesla's Supercharger business. The focus for this role is to be the trusted advisor for the business leadership in Italy, Spain, France and Portugal. You will specifically support in legal matters related to the service and sales business within Tesla and advise on applicable statutory and consumer protection laws, regulatory matters, marketing and real estate and Supercharger contracts as well as proactively manage outside counsel.
The role can be based in Italy, Spain or Portugal, but candidates from other areas are also strongly encouraged to apply. Strong command of most of the applicable languages is highly desired. Some business travel will be required.
You are a team player, highly organized, self-motivated, pro-active and entrepreneurial. You have the ability to think strategically and know how to successfully and independently manage complex legal matters while prioritizing your resources efficiently. This is a great opportunity to work at a fast growing, highly diversified and dynamic company while having significant impact on one of Tesla's largest markets.
* Be a legal trusted advisor for all Tesla business leads in your region
* Support all sales and services initiatives (B2C and B2B), including drafting and reviewing terms and conditions, as well as all related legal matters
* Provide legal advice for marketing of sales initiatives, the Tesla website and other customer communications
* Draft and review contracts relating to Tesla real estate for showrooms and service centers
* Draft and review contracts relating to Tesla's fast growing Supercharger business incl. support of all other related legal matters Manage all regulatory matters relating to Tesla products in your regions
* Manage all other legal day-to-day work
* Liaise regularly with your peers in EMEA, the EMEA Litigation team as well as all relevant global team members and stakeholders
* You are a qualified lawyer in either Italy, Spain or Portugal, with experience at a law firm and/or in-house corporate international environment, ideally with a background in being a country/regional lawyer, with an exceptional ability to handle a high workload of complex legal matters at the same time
* You are a team player with the ability to proactively identify problems, drive projects, and execute pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions on a timely basis
* You inspire trust, forge relationships quickly with key stakeholders at all levels, and earn the confidence and cooperation of your business partners
* You work well both autonomously, collaboratively and transparently, and are effective at juggling and prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment
* You possess an entrepreneurial mindset, quick and flexible learner, with high standards, impeccable integrity and ethics, unquestionable good judgment, well-honed analytical skills
* You have excellent communication skills, with a business level to near native level fluency in English, Italian, Spanish, French and/or Portuguese (written and spoken)