Junior Legal Counsel

Fastned UK Limited; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

Pension plan

Company bonus plan

29 holidays + 2 Mission Days

Fully electric company car

€3000 yearly training budget

Nilo Health mental health platform

Urban Sports Club access

Parental benefits beyond minimums

Flouria Women’s Health access

Daily lunches at office

Yearly company trip

Job summary

Fastned is seeking a Junior Legal Counsel for the Netherlands. You will join a growing European legal team based in Amsterdam, reporting to the Lead Legal NL.

The role covers GDPR/privacy, internal policies, and day-to-day corporate housekeeping while enabling growth into broader legal areas across the company. We value an entrepreneurial, proactive mindset, strong communication, and a passion for technology and AI to make legal work more efficient.

Qualifications

• Masters in Dutch law or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of legal counsel experience in-house or at a law firm.
• Interest in compliance topics and corporate housekeeping.
• Fluency in English and Dutch, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Own key compliance topics, esp. GDPR/privacy and internal policies.
• Maintain and roll out internal policies; support awareness and training.
• Handle corporate housekeeping: board/shareholder resolutions, KvK filings, UBOs.
• Review, draft and negotiate contracts (NDAs, services, procurement, T&Cs).
• Develop templates and playbooks; optimise contract management and DocuSign workflows.
• Monitor regulatory developments and provide timely input to internal teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Team player

Digital tools

Interest in technology/AI

Education

Master’s degree (LLM) in Dutch law

Tools

DocuSign

Job description

The role

As Junior Legal Counsel for Fastned in the Netherlands, you will support the legal team in managing Fastned's compliance and corporate affairs. This is a broad, generalist function with a particular focus on compliance topics, most notably GDPR/privacy and our general internal policies, combined with day-to-day corporate housekeeping tasks. Over time, the role offers the opportunity to grow into a wide range of legal areas, from contract review to consumer law, regulatory matters and more corporate-related topics.

We enjoy working with a self-motivated, proactive, entrepreneurial and mission-driven individual. Working as Fastned's Junior Legal Counsel is a great opportunity to start your in-house career at a rapidly growing, highly diversified and dynamic scale-up while being able to make a significant impact from day one.

You will be part of a growing European legal team with colleagues based in Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Ghent and London. As Junior Legal Counsel you will be based in our Amsterdam HQ and report to the Lead Legal NL, working productively and collaboratively with all your colleagues within Fastned.

What you will do

• Taking ownership of key compliance topics, with a particular focus on GDPR and privacy matters: maintaining and updating the Register of Processing Activities, reviewing Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), advising the business on privacy-by-design principles, conducting privacy assessments (LIAs and DPIAs), handling data subject requests, and supporting Third Party Risk assessments.

• Maintaining, updating and rolling out Fastned's internal policies, while supporting awareness and training initiatives across the organisation.

• Handling corporate housekeeping tasks, including preparing board and shareholder resolutions, powers of attorney, KvK filings and UBO registrations, maintaining corporate registers, and supporting signing and notarial processes.

• Acting as a generalist legal counsel in support of the Dutch and wider European team: reviewing, drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts, including NDAs, services agreements, procurement agreements, and general terms and conditions.

• Driving the optimisation and standardisation of legal processes, including the development of templates and playbooks, contract management, and DocuSign workflows.

• Monitoring legislative and regulatory developments and providing timely input into relevant internal processes.

Our requirements

We are looking for a colleague with an entrepreneurial mindset and good communication skills. Someone who is a team player and an actual nice person with whom it is fun to work. You are comfortable working with digital tools and have a natural curiosity for technology and AI, and how these can make (legal) work smarter and more efficient. Because this is a junior, generalist role, we expect you to be proactive and drive projects forward.

Because we are looking for an all-round junior legal counsel, we understand that you will still have a lot to learn. Therefore, it is desirable for you to be a quick and flexible learner who is intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited by dynamic change. To make this happen, we are looking for the following:

• A Master's degree (LLM) in Dutch law (preferably with a focus on commercial, corporate and/or privacy law), or the equivalent in experience.

• At least 1 year of relevant legal counsel experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal environment together with experience, which may have been gained through a traineeship, paralegal role, or a substantive legal student position at a law firm and/or in-house legal team environment (maximum 3 years of total relevant experience).

• Affinity with compliance topics, corporate law and basic understanding of corporate housekeeping.

• Fluency in English and Dutch (written and spoken).
  

Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place.

Our benefits include:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Attractive Pension plan fully covered by Fastned.

• Company bonus plan.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you 2 ‘Mission Days’ you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Fully electric company car.

• Yearly training budget of € 3000.

• Access to the mental health platform Nilo Health including 10 sessions with psychologists of your choice.

• Urban Sports Club Subscription.

• Additional parental benefits above legal minimum, including coaching via Foundtree.

• Accessibility to Women's Health platform Flouria.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations

• Company events year-round, including an exciting yearly trip abroad with all employees.