Legal Counsel, EMEA

Legal Counsel, EMEA (m/f/d) Berlin, Germany – Hybrid Position Overview

Foxit is seeking a Legal Counsel, EMEA (m/f/d) to provide practical, business‑oriented legal support across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. This role will be based in Berlin, Germany, and will partner closely with commercial, product, engineering, privacy, security, HR, and regional leadership teams to support business growth while helping manage legal, regulatory, and operational risk. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in technology, SaaS, and commercial contracting, with the ability to advise on complex legal matters in a fast‑moving, multinational environment.

This role will support a broad range of areas, including commercial agreements, data protection, privacy, employment‑related matters, regulatory requirements, and internal legal processes.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of technology and SaaS‑related commercial agreements, including MSAs, SLAs, DPAs, NDAs, RFP responses, EULAs, terms and conditions, partner agreements, reseller agreements, and customer contracts.
• Provide practical legal guidance to sales, customer success, partnerships, procurement, and regional business teams to support commercial execution.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and contractual risk while helping the business move efficiently and responsibly.
• Support contract escalations and provide clear recommendations on acceptable risk positions, fallback language, and negotiation strategy.

• Advise on data protection and privacy matters, including GDPR and related EMEA privacy requirements.
• Partner with internal stakeholders on data processing agreements, privacy terms, vendor reviews, and customer security or compliance requests.
• Provide guidance on legal and regulatory topics affecting SaaS, cloud services, cybersecurity, e‑commerce, AI‑enabled functionality, and digital products across EMEA.
• Work with internal teams and external counsel as needed to monitor legal and regulatory developments relevant to Foxit’s business.

• Support product, engineering, security, and compliance teams on legal considerations related to new features, APIs, integrations, AI‑driven functionality, and product launches.
• Provide practical legal advice that balances regulatory requirements, customer expectations, product strategy, and business goals.
• Help translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business and technical stakeholders.

• Improve legal processes through the development of templates, playbooks, clause libraries, workflows, and scalable contracting solutions.
• Support the implementation of legal policies, regional compliance practices, and internal governance processes.
• Deliver training to internal teams on contracts, privacy, compliance, risk management, and legal best practices.
• Coordinate with external counsel where appropriate on jurisdiction‑specific matters across EMEA.

• Qualified lawyer in a European jurisdiction.
• Approximately 5-10 years of legal experience, ideally within technology, SaaS, commercial law, or a combination of in‑house and private practice environments.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, technology, data protection, and partner/reseller contracts.
• Solid working knowledge of GDPR and privacy requirements across EMEA.
• Experience advising business teams on commercial, regulatory, and risk‑related matters in a multinational environment.
• Ability to provide clear, practical, business‑oriented legal advice to non‑legal stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust across sales, product, engineering, security, HR, finance, and leadership teams.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, high‑growth, global organization.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Fluent in English; additional European languages are a plus.
• Must be legally authorized to work in…