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Legal & Compliance Manager (mfd)
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17 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
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14 October 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Job Description
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Legal & Compliance Manager to own our legal and compliance function across our German and US entities. This is a broad high-ownership role in a fast-growing company: you will strengthen and advance our compliance posture while also taking care of the contracts that run our business across EMEA and the US. essentry is certified according to ISO 27001 based on BSI IT-Grundschutz by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and you will be the internal owner who develops that foundation further as we scale.
Your mission
Legal
- You own commercial contract work across the customer partner and supplier lifecycle including NDAs data processing agreements SaaS and master service agreements distribution and reseller agreements and supplier contracts
- You draft review and negotiate contracts in German and English and across German and US law contexts in close coordination with our external law firms and you know when to escalate complex or high-value matters to outside counsel
- You are the internal point of contact for legal and contractual questions across sales partnerships and operations spanning both our German and US operations
- You help build lightweight legal and compliance processes templates and playbooks that scale with the company
- You own and continuously develop our information security management system and drive our ISO 27001 certification forward including preparing for and leading audits
- You act as the internal owner who steers our external information security officer (ISO) and coordinates closely with our independent data protection officer (DPO) making sure their expertise translates into effective day-to-day practice
- You are our trusted interface in customer and partner due diligence owning the security and compliance assessments that are often a prerequisite for closing enterprise and critical infrastructure deals
- You track regulatory and customer requirements across our markets from GDPR to the sector-specific expectations of our critical infrastructure clients and translate them into clear internal controls policies and audit-ready evidence
Your profile
- You have a legal background for example a law degree (First State Examination) or a combined law and business degree such as Unternehmensjurist/in (LL.B.) or Wirtschaftsrecht (LL.B.)
- You have relevant experience in an in-house legal compliance or law firm environment ideally in a SaaS technology or regulated setting and you are comfortable working across multiple entities and jurisdictions
- You are confident negotiating and managing a wide range of stakeholders from contract negotiations with customers partners and suppliers to working alongside our customers cyber security experts global physical security teams procurement and data protection functions
- You like to own topics fully work independently and in a structured way and you are comfortable coordinating and steering external experts
- You have strong communication skills and can translate legal and compliance topics into clear guidance for non-experts
- You are fluent in written and spoken German and English as our contracts and stakeholders span both the German entity and our US operations
Why us
- You take ownership of an established legal and compliance foundation from our ISO 27001 certification to our contract stack and develop it into a mature scalable function
- You work directly with global enterprises and critical infrastructure operators on the multi-year high-value contracts and compliance topics that move the company forward
- You work at the forefront of a fast-moving regulatory shift: essentry helps critical infrastructure operators meet their physical access security and compliance obligations and new regulation such as the KRITIS-Dachgesetz in Germany and the underlying CER Directive at EU level is turning physical resilience into a legal requirement
- Flat hierarchies and a dynamic work environment with the chance to build a category leader
About us
essentry specializes in the digitalization of access processes. The core product is the verification of personal identities at border-control level and the automation of the access process. Using biometric technology and artificial intelligence we are able to achieve the highest level of security for facilities employees and guests. Our approach is holistic combining both hardware and software components for maximum user-centricity. Today essentry is represented in ten countries on three continents and supports multinational corporations critical infrastructures global consulting and auditing firms public sector customers.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
essentry is a fast growing PropTech company in Berlin. We digitize reception processes and make them easier, more secure and efficient. Identity verification and the automation of access processes is at the core of our products. By using biometric technology and artificial intelligenc ... View more
