• Provide strategic legal support across commercial contracting, procurement, quality, operations, transactional and general corporate matters • Serve as lead legal advisor to the Microbial Control Solutions business in North America • Support the US HR function, including employment counseling, internal investigations and employment law matters • Manage complex legal matters independently while partnering closely with the General Counsel and senior stakeholders • Handle commercial disputes and support litigation, including managing outside counsel and related budgets • Identify legal and compliance risks and lead the development and implementation of mitigation strategies • Collaborate cross-functionally to enable business objectives and continuously improve legal processes

• Provides legal advice and counsel to development, strategy, finance, and operations teams • Supports transactions including drafting agreements, leading negotiations, and due diligence • Advises structure for transactions and assist in crafting solutions to protect interests • Conducts legal research and analysis for recommendations and prepares written opinions • Supports corporate governance processes and entity management compliance • Provides legal support on commercial finance and tax matters • Acts as a liaison between management and internal/external legal experts

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team; participate in strategic planning, deal structuring, and business development conversations. • Provide practical legal guidance across commercial, operational, and organizational matters; support leadership in balancing risk, speed, and business objectives. • Help build scalable legal and governance processes as the organization grows. • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of commercial contracts, including enterprise SaaS agreements, data center services agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, subcontractor agreements, and custom deal structures. • Identify legal and operational risks within complex commercial relationships. • Support evolving partnerships across AI, infrastructure, software, and public-sector initiatives. • Support and lead legal work on ground leases, commercial leases, land acquisition, title review, easements, and real estate transactions tied to data center site development, including our RELLIS campus work. • Navigate university, state entity, and government procurement frameworks; structure deals that satisfy both institutional requirements and business objectives. • Advise on employment-related matters, internal policies, and organizational risk. • Support ISO-aligned operational and compliance initiatives. • Partner with leadership on governance, documentation, and internal controls. • Build and maintain our compliance posture across data privacy (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA awareness), AI and technology regulation, and employment law; flag risks before they become problems. • Help evaluate legal and compliance implications of AI and software deployments; coordinate with technical and operational teams on evolving risk areas. • Establish scalable legal processes, document templates, external counsel relationships, and internal policies; build the function from scratch. • Understand our products well enough to translate AI, data center, and cloud infrastructure concepts into precise legal language. • Help shape a proactive approach to enterprise risk management; identify areas where legal structure, process, or policy can reduce operational exposure. • Contribute to the organization's long-term maturity as legal and compliance needs evolve.

• As Senior Legal Counsel (m/f/d) you act as an operational sparring partner for Sales and Management and play a central role in the fast, scalable and legally secure execution of SaaS deals. • Your focus is on increasing deal velocity, win rate and commercial scalability — with a controlled risk profile. • You report directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and work closely with Sales Leadership. • End-to-end support of SaaS deals: legal coverage from tendering through contract negotiation to closing. • Shaping deal strategies: active support, especially for complex enterprise and key-account contracts. • Negotiation & structuring of contracts: focus on commercial levers, deal speed and high close rates. • Development of scalable contract standards: building and enhancing playbooks, fallback clauses and CLM structures to accelerate deal execution. • Ownership of commercial KPIs in the legal process: responsibility for metrics such as deal cycle time, touchpoints and closure rate. • Risk management & guardrails: active control of risk allocation and the definition of clear decision-making guardrails. • Use of Legal Tech & AI: leveraging modern tools to increase efficiency while ensuring corporate governance and proper housekeeping.