Legal Officer / Paralegal – German speaking (d/f/m)

🚀 Your role

Luminovo's business is growing and maturing, and so is our Legal Team!

As Paralegal, whenever your colleagues in customer-facing role require legal guidance, you are their first point of contact. You support or take over any legal matters related to process changes, customer contracts, or new business initiatives.

Your responsibilities also reach into the areas of data security and compliance, which have high relevance for the development of our product and business.

This is your opportunity to join our team of 80 (and counting) talented and kind individuals. You will learn about and benefit from many best practices our teams have already established. But there’s still plenty of room to grow, and your contribution can have an immense impact on Luminovo's trajectory. 🚀

🤓 Whom you'll be working with

• Benedikt – our VP Operations, who leads our Finance and Legal teams directly, while also overseeing our People team

• Naima – our Legal Counsel and Business Operations Associate, who is in charge of all legal matters and Benedikt's "right hand"

• Nía – our People Generalist, who manages the entire employee life cycle of our German and international Luminerds

• Hannah – our People Lead, who is in charge of the People function, including talent acquisition, compensation strategy, performance management, and international labor law topics.

• Sarah – our Finance & Operations Specialist, who is responsible for our accounting and payroll processes, currently also manages data security and compliance topics

🎯 Performance objectives

Note: Please also apply if you only see a partial match with the following performance objectives!

We expect you to handle a wide variety of legal matters (as many as possible given your skills and strengths) that push Luminovo forward:

• You balance the need to mitigate business risks with the ability to quickly support new and existing customer relationships at any contractual level, allowing Luminovo to grow rapidly without ever facing a disastrous legal liability.

• You conduct research and draft recommendations on labor law matters, enabling our People team to hire new Luminerds and develop existing employees effectively and efficiently.

• You research and draft recommendations on labor law issues to enable effective and efficient hiring of new Luminerds and the development of current employees.

• You satisfy (legal) requests of any external stakeholders (federal or municipal authorities, landlords, trademark authorities, shareholders etc.), ensuring that Luminovo can operate free of disturbances.

• You represent Luminovo in front of customers, business partners, etc. and facilitate contract negotiations, helping us to reach our desired outcomes and maintain robust relationships.

• You manage and develop workflow automations to continuously increase the efficiency of our (legal) operations.

• You are a trusted problem solver for any (People) Operations matters, including e.g. visa issues or logistical challenges related to team retreats, significantly freeing up capacity of other Luminerds so they can focus on creating impact for Luminovo.

• Note: For all of these performance objectives, you'll always have Benedikt and/or Naima by your side, should you need any support.

🤓 Skills, knowledge, and expertise

Just so you know – we purposefully don't create a standard list of qualifications for our roles. We care much more about your motivation and ability to create impact at Luminovo than just about your CV. If you're interested to find out more about why we banned requirements from our performance profiles – see here.

However, given the nature of this role, we do have specific language requirements: You must be a native German (🇩🇪) speaker and have excellent proficiency in English (🇬🇧).

Previous experience in one of the following roles is not a must, but will enhance your potential to successfully meet the performance expectations of this role:

• Legal Officer (Rechtspfleger*in)

• Paralegal or Legal Assistant (Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellte*r)

• Notary assistant (Notarfachangestellte*r)

• Commercial Lawyer (Wirtschaftsjurist*in)

💻 Work setup

• Start date: December 2025

• Weekly hours: 40h per week

• Location: We are a remote first company and are therefore open for all locations in Germany, while our office is in Munich.

⚡️ About Luminovo

Luminovo is the first electronics supply chain platform that unites all data, processes, and stakeholders in the trillion-dollar electronics industry.

We fundamentally believe that technology is the best tool that humankind has developed to tackle the biggest challenges we face as a society today. And we want to do our share in accelerating technological progress.

We bring innovations to life faster and cheaper by creating a more connected and resilient electronics supply chain.

To date, over 300 active customers worldwide are working with us towards this shared goal. Supported by leading investors such as Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst/LaFamiglia, Chalfen Ventures, and others, we have raised more than €20 million.

Our core principles: putting people first & building great things

As a remote-first company headquartered in Munich, our brilliant team is spread across cities including Munich, New Jersey, Calgary, Berlin, London, Valencia, Nairobi, and Verona, among others. 🌍

Our team includes a mix of product enthusiasts, people advocates, business masterminds, and engineering experts. Among us are graduates from institutions like Stanford University and the University of Cambridge, as well as talented individuals with unconventional CVs. What matters most is their drive to build great things.

We provide an authentic environment based on psychological safety to empower Luminerds from various backgrounds to succeed, grow, and focus on impact. Putting people first means that we deeply care about who our employees are, what makes them unique, and what they excel at.

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