Job Description
Legal Counsel, EMEA (m/f/d)
Berlin, Germany — Hybrid
About Foxit
Foxit is transforming the way the world works with documents through advanced PDF technology and digital document solutions. We are a leading global software provider delivering fast, affordable, and secure PDF tools used by millions of people worldwide.
With customers in more than 200 countries, a global footprint across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and a product portfolio that continues to expand, Foxit is challenging the status quo in digital documents. Our proven technology supports organizations of every size, from growing businesses to global enterprises, including customers such as Google and Amazon.
For more information, visit us at www.foxit.com.
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.
As part of Foxit’s global legal team, the Legal Counsel, EMEA will play an important role in enabling scalable growth across the region while helping strengthen legal standards, templates, processes, and compliance practices.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Contracts & Business Support
- 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.
Privacy, Data Protection & Regulatory Compliance
- 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.
Product, Technology & Internal Advisory
- 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.
Legal Operations, Policies & Training
- 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.
Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- 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 Germany.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to join a high-growth global software company shaping the future of digital document technology.
- A broad and impactful legal role supporting commercial, product, privacy, and regional business matters across EMEA.
- Close partnership with senior leadership, global legal colleagues, and cross-functional teams.
- The ability to influence scalable legal processes, regional compliance practices, and international business growth.
- Competitive compensation and a flexible working environment.
Equal Opportunity & Applicant Privacy
Foxit is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other status protected under applicable law. Applicants with disabilities will be considered in accordance with applicable German law.
By applying, you acknowledge that Foxit will process your personal data for recruitment purposes in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR and the German Federal Data Protection Act, where applicable. Further information will be provided through Foxit’s applicant privacy notice.
Closing Statement
At Foxit, we are building innovative technology that helps organizations work faster, smarter, and more securely with digital documents. If you are a commercially minded legal professional who enjoys partnering with the business, solving complex problems, and supporting growth across international markets, we would like to hear from you.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
