AMBOSS
Medical Technology
GeneralCounsel
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“General Counsel at AMBOSS. Skills: Legal counsel, Risk management, Team leadership, Business partnership. Lead legal function. Shape risk management”
What You'll Achieve.
Shape how we manage risk across the business; Build a team that grows with us; Shape AMBOSS’s success and how it continues to grow; Help AMBOSS make sharper, faster, better-informed decisions; Ensure risk thinking is embedded in how decisions get made; Operate with leverage, not one that scales by headcount alone; Make legal work faster, sharper, and more scalable
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10 years of post-qualification experience, substantial period spent in-house preferably at a fast-moving company, Demonstrated experience leading a legal team of meaningful size, track record of making and owning risk-based decisions in a commercial environment, translating legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers, Solid grounding in corporate law, hands-on exposure to M&A, financing rounds, or significant commercial transactions, Meaningful experience in a technology company or similarly complex, fast-moving environment, familiarity with the legal landscape for digital products, pragmatic, hands-on interest in AI and legal technology, track record (or clear ambition) of using these tools to make legal work faster, sharper, and more scalable, Comfort operating at the pace, pragmatism, and trade-offs that come with sitting inside a business rather than advising from the outside, commercially-minded leader who happens to be a lawyer, understand that your job is not to eliminate risk but to help the business take the right risks for the right reasons, make calls with confidence, communicate them with clarity, and stand behind them when challenged, comfortable saying "yes, with these guardrails" more often than "no", build credibility with the business by being a genuine partner rather than a gatekeeper, colleagues across the company come to you because they value your judgment, not just your title, directness, intellectual honesty, and a genuine absence of ego to everything you do, care about developing the people around you, take the responsibility of building a team seriously
Nice to Have
ideally in German law, Additional experience in US law is a plus, clear preference for leadership over individual contribution
What You'll Do.
Shape risk management
Build and lead legal team
Advise on legal and risk dimensions
and manage legal and regulatory risk
Set frameworks for risk management
Define legal function structure
Prioritise legal work
Partner effectively with business
Set standards for legal function
Mentor legal team members
Leverage AI and modern legal tooling
Ensure coverage of cross-border legal questions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Be a true business partner to the Executive Team; Primary legal voice at leadership level; Advise Co-CEOs, Executive Team, and senior stakeholders; Partner deeply with the business; Recommend specific paths forward; Navigate risk trade-offs; Embed risk thinking in decision-making; Partner effectively with the rest of the business; Support colleagues in their development; Build credibility with the business as a genuine partner
Communication Scope
Translating legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers; Communicate calls with clarity
Full Job Description
At AMBOSS, we believe in revolutionising the way medical professionals access and utilise knowledge. We build tools that physicians and students around the world rely on to make better decisions, and we take the responsibility that comes with that seriously. As we scale, we are looking for a General Counsel to lead our legal function, shape how we manage risk across the business, and build a team that grows with us. This role reports to the Co-CEO and sits at the leadership table. It is, above all, a commercial leadership role with a legal foundation. We are not looking for a technical legal expert who advises from the sidelines. The decisions you will be part of on markets, products, partnerships, and risk will shape AMBOSS’s success and how it continues to grow. We are looking for a senior operator who runs a function, partners deeply with the business, and helps AMBOSS make sharper, faster, better-informed decisions in a complex regulatory environment. WHAT YOU WILL DO Be a true business partner to the Executive Team. You will be the primary legal voice at leadership level, advising the Co-CEOs, the Executive Team, and senior stakeholders on the legal and risk dimensions of the decisions that shape AMBOSS's future. That means M&A, financing, new product launches, market expansions, and the day-to-day commercial questions in between. You will be a proactive advisor who recommends specific paths forward and navigates risk trade-offs, instead of just laying out the legal landscape and leaving the decision to others. Lead risk management across the business. You will own how AMBOSS identifies, prioritises, and manages legal and regulatory risk across all markets. This includes setting frameworks the business can actually use, calibrating where we need to be conservative versus where we can move quickly, and ensuring that risk thinking is embedded in how decisions get made. Build and lead a modern legal function. You will lead and grow AMBOSS's legal team of currently
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