Job Description
Founded in 2017, refurbed is Europe’s fastest-growing marketplace for refurbished products, active in 12 European countries and having surpassed €2Bn in GMV — all while being profitable. With beautiful headquarters in Vienna, we operate as a remote-first company, and our 250+ employees enjoy up to two months of workation per year. We’ve also been recognised as a Top DACH Employer by Kununu for three consecutive years.
Our mission is to make sustainable consumption the easy choice by enabling customers to buy products up to 40% cheaper while significantly reducing CO₂ emissions.
If you thrive in an environment that values momentum, ownership, and impact, you’ll feel at home here. We’re a fast-paced, high-performance team that works hard and challenges itself everyday. To enable this high-performance every team member enjoys full autonomy over their location (we’re remote-first).
The Legal Counsel (f/m/x) will play a crucial role as an enabler to tackle new business opportunities, in ensuring legal compliance and mitigating legal and regulatory risks associated with the dynamic e-commerce landscape and our marketplace platform operations across Europe’s refurbished industries. This position requires a legal professional with a broad and varied portfolio — from contracts and data protection to regulatory compliance and dispute resolution — and work closely with teams across the company to keep us moving fast while staying on the right side of the law, enabling us to navigate complex legal challenges while supporting the company’s growth objectives.
WHO YOU ARE:
- 5+ years of work experience in an in-house legal department of a company or in a law firm
- Strong understanding of data privacy law, and experience in e-commerce, platform and technology regulations. Knowledge of Austrian corporate law is a plus.
- A solid generalist background with broad experience across commercial law, compliance, and regulatory topics is a must.
- Strongly motivated to tackle legal projects in other domains relevant to refurbed’s business where necessary
- Excellent communication skills in English and German, both verbal and written. Additional language skills (e.g., in Italian) are a plus.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to anticipate legal risks and develop proactive solutions to mitigate them.
- Proven project and stakeholder-management skills to master larger projects.
- Flexibility and adaptability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
- Degree in Austrian / German Law. (Experience in Austrian law is required).
Location & eligibility: This role is open to candidates based in Europe (including UK) only with a valid right to work.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Advise internal teams on legal risks and help them find practical, workable solutions
- Support the business on new market entries, product launches, and strategic initiatives
- Own and improve our legal processes, templates, and documentation
- Ensure that our company is compliant with current and future e-commerce, technology and platform regulations
- Develop and implement legal strategies aligned with the company’s growth objectives. Provide legal guidance and support for strategic initiatives and business projects.
- Oversee the drafting, review, and negotiation of contracts with suppliers, vendors, partners, and other stakeholders. Ensure that contracts protect the company’s interests and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
- Oversee compliance with data protection laws and ensure the security of customer data and company information.
WHY YOU WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH US:
Our Culture and Values:
- Decisions should be made based on facts and not by hierarchy levels? We sure think so!
- We embrace giving and receiving feedback, testing and welcoming new ideas, as well as sharing our knowledge across the company.
- You fail sometimes? Well, so do we! We’re all just human, let’s learn from our mistakes to improve in the future!
- No matter who you love, where you’re from, who you pray to, whether you pee sitting down or standing up – we are a bunch of talented people who enjoy spending our time making a difference!
Personal & Professional Development:
- You’ll have access to a dedicated learning budget within your department to support your growth, whether it’s courses, conferences, or other learning opportunities that matter to you.
- We partner with Likeminded, offering you private sessions with experts for your personal growth and mental health.
- We frequently host internal workshops, allowing our teams to further develop their skills in different areas and enhancing collaboration across departments.
Flexibility:
- We care about a healthy work/life balance. We not only function and support a fully remote setting but also offer the possibility to work from our beautiful office in the vibrant heart of Vienna – we love dogs, so feel free to bring your furry little buddy too 😊
- We trust you to do the best job, so we don’t care so much when you do it – you are able to self-organize.
- You will also be invited to take part in our office weeks, happening three times a year, where you will have the chance to work side by side with your colleagues and enjoy the team-building events and on-site workshops
…and much more! See https://careers.refurbed.com/ for further insights!
