Senior Legal Associate

Role Overview

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements with prospects, customers, and partners.
• Provide proactive legal support during the entire sales cycle — early stage prospecting, redlining, negotiation, and deal closure.
• Support CSM teams with renewals, amendments, expansions, and renegotiations.
• Educate Sales and CSM teams on contract structures, Syncron’s standard clauses, negotiation boundaries, and risk considerations.
• Collaborate daily with Sales, CSM, Revenue Operations, Finance, InfoSec, and Product teams to facilitate timely contracting.
• Clearly communicate contracting risks, commercial implications, and alternative clause wording to non-legal stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and commercial risks.
• Ensure contracts comply with internal policies, company risk standards, and relevant laws and regulations.
• Maintain accuracy of contract records and data within Syncron’s contract management systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of global templates and playbooks.
• Support development of negotiation guides, fallback positions, and process efficiencies for commercial contracting.

Requirements

• Law degree; bar admission (attorney-at-law or advocate).
• 4+ years of legal experience in commercial contracting, with at least 2 years of experience in SaaS industry.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with enterprise customers.
• Ability to explain legal issues to business stakeholders in a clear, practical manner.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong business acumen and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written; German will be considered an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of contract law and corporate governance.
• Having experience in the IT industry and a decent understanding of technology work environment will be a strong asset.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work closely with commercial teams on various contracts, including strategic, high-value customer contracts.
• Exposure to international stakeholders and cross-regional contracting practices.
• A dynamic, supportive environment focused on operational excellence and continuous improvement.