Junior Legal Counsel

Fastned exists because twelve years ago, driving an electric car across Europe meant planning your route around whether you would make it. We have spent since 2012 building the answer: a fast-charging network you can actually rely on, running entirely on solar and wind. More than 400 stations across nine countries now, on our way to 1,000 by 2030. Every one of them is a bet that clean energy wins on the commercial case as well as the moral one, and so far the bet is paying off. Building that network takes more than construction. It takes the teams behind it, and those teams are being built right now, which means you would have a hand in deciding how the work gets done rather than stepping into something already settled.

A company that leases land in ten countries, sells energy to the public and is listed on the stock exchange generates more legal questions than most law firms see in a year. As Junior Legal Counsel you will be in the middle of them, with privacy and GDPR as your home base and everything from commercial contracts to corporate housekeeping around it. Our legal team built its own AI tool and is actively working out what it means for how legal works, and you will have a voice in that.

The role

As Junior Legal Counsel for Fastned in the Netherlands, you will support the legal team in managing Fastned's compliance and corporate affairs. This is a broad, generalist function with a particular focus on compliance topics, most notably GDPR/privacy and our general internal policies, combined with day-to-day corporate housekeeping tasks. Over time, the role offers the opportunity to grow into a wide range of legal areas, from contract review to consumer law, regulatory matters and more corporate-related topics.

We enjoy working with a self-motivated, proactive, entrepreneurial and mission-driven individual. Working as Fastned's Junior Legal Counsel is a great opportunity to start your in-house career at a rapidly growing, highly diversified and dynamic scale-up while being able to make a significant impact from day one.

You will be part of a growing European legal team with colleagues based in Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Ghent and London. As Junior Legal Counsel you will be based in our Amsterdam HQ and report to the Lead Legal NL, working productively and collaboratively with all your colleagues within Fastned.

What you will do

• Taking ownership of key compliance topics, with a particular focus on GDPR and privacy matters: maintaining and updating the Register of Processing Activities, reviewing Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), advising the business on privacy-by-design principles, conducting privacy assessments (LIAs and DPIAs), handling data subject requests, and supporting Third Party Risk assessments.

• Maintaining, updating and rolling out Fastned's internal policies, while supporting awareness and training initiatives across the organisation.

• Handling corporate housekeeping tasks, including preparing board and shareholder resolutions, powers of attorney, KvK filings and UBO registrations, maintaining corporate registers, and supporting signing and notarial processes.

• Acting as a generalist legal counsel in support of the Dutch and wider European team: reviewing, drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts, including NDAs, services agreements, procurement agreements, and general terms and conditions.

• Driving the optimisation and standardisation of legal processes, including the development of templates and playbooks, contract management, and DocuSign workflows.

• Monitoring legislative and regulatory developments and providing timely input into relevant internal processes.

Our requirements

We are looking for a colleague with an entrepreneurial mindset and good communication skills. Someone who is a team player and an actual nice person with whom it is fun to work. You are comfortable working with digital tools and have a natural curiosity for technology and AI, and how these can make (legal) work smarter and more efficient. Because this is a junior, generalist role, we expect you to be proactive and drive projects forward.

Because we are looking for an all-round junior legal counsel, we understand that you will still have a lot to learn. Therefore, it is desirable for you to be a quick and flexible learner who is intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, and excited by dynamic change. To make this happen, we are looking for the following:

• A Master's degree (LLM) in Dutch law (preferably with a focus on commercial, corporate and/or privacy law), or the equivalent in experience.

• At least 1 year of relevant legal counsel experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal environment together with experience, which may have been gained through a traineeship, paralegal role, or a substantive legal student position at a law firm and/or in-house legal team environment (maximum 3 years of total relevant experience).  

• Affinity with compliance topics, corporate law and basic understanding of corporate housekeeping.

• Fluency in English and Dutch (written and spoken).
  

Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place.

Our benefits include:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Attractive Pension plan fully covered by Fastned.

• Company bonus plan.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you 2 ‘Mission Days’ you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Fully electric company car.

• Yearly training budget of € 3000.

• Access to the mental health platform Nilo Health including 10 sessions with psychologists of your choice.

• Urban Sports Club Subscription.

• Additional parental benefits above legal minimum, including coaching via Foundtree.

• Accessibility to Women's Health platform Flouria.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations

• Company events year-round, including an exciting yearly trip abroad with all employees.
  

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique