Middle Legal Counsel

About the Position

Middle Legal Counsel

Київ | гібридний формат

About the Company

Our client is a Ukrainian defense-tech company that develops and manufactures technological solutions already used by the Defense Forces in critical defense and offensive operations.

The team brings together experts with deep expertise in creating and manufacturing technological products and works in a dynamic environment where responsibility, flexibility, independence, and results orientation are highly valued.

The company is open to cooperation with veterans, veteranesses, and their family members.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Middle Legal Counsel to strengthen the legal function and ensure comprehensive support for the company's operational activities in Ukraine.

The main focus of the role is the full cycle of work with commercial contracts within the Ukrainian jurisdiction, supporting internal business teams, and practical application of civil, commercial, labor, and tax laws.

This is a hands-on position for a lawyer with experience working within a commercial company, readiness to work under certain uncertainty, and gradually improving legal processes with the Head of Legal.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, analyze, edit, and approve commercial contracts.
• Support the full contract cycle: from document preparation and risk analysis to negotiations, amendments, approval, and signing.
• Work with supply, procurement, service provision, lease, partnership, licensing, and other B2B contracts, as well as NDAs.
• Provide legal support to business teams on operational issues.
• Advise on civil, commercial, labor, and tax laws of Ukraine.
• Adapt existing and develop new contract templates and legal documents.
• Conduct basic legal verification of Ukrainian counterparties.
• Prepare legal opinions, service notes, official letters, and other legal documents.
• Participate in resolving non-standard, conflict, and contentious situations.
• Maintain and systematize contracts, legal templates, and supporting document flow.
• Monitor changes in Ukrainian legislation and assess their impact on the company's activities.
• Interact with internal teams as a legal partner within the scope of expertise.
• Initiate improvements and optimization of legal function processes.

Requirements

• Higher legal education.
• At least 3 years of relevant legal experience.
• Mandatory practical in-house experience in a commercial company.
• Experience in supporting the operational activities of a company within the Ukrainian jurisdiction.
• Practical experience with commercial B2B contracts and their full cycle.
• Confident knowledge of civil, commercial, and labor laws of Ukraine.
• Understanding of basic issues of tax law.
• Ability to identify legal risks and propose practical ways to minimize them.
• Ability to prepare structured legal opinions and explain complex legal issues in a business-friendly language.
• Willingness to argue one's position and conduct complex negotiations.
• Proactiveness and ability to approach the internal customer not only with questions but also with possible solutions.
• Willingness to work in a dynamic environment where processes may change and require additional responsibility.
• Structural thinking, consistency, and high attention to detail.
• High level of responsibility, confidentiality, and professional ethics.
• Fluency in Ukrainian.

Nice to Have

• Experience in miltech, defense-tech, or IT companies.
• Experience in building or optimizing internal legal processes.
• Knowledge of intellectual property law.
• Experience in preparing internal policies, regulations, orders, and instructions.
• Interaction with government agencies or regulators of Ukraine.
• Experience in pre-trial dispute resolution and support of conflict cases.
• English language at a level sufficient for reading, analyzing, and editing contracts.
• Personal commitment to supporting the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

We Offer

• Work on technological solutions that are directly significant for Ukraine's defense capability.
• Official employment.
• Office work format during the probation period and hybrid format after its successful completion.
• Comfortable office on the right bank of Kyiv, five minutes from the metro, near the center.
• Parking near the office.
• Paid vacation and sick leave.
• Health insurance.
• Possibility of booking for military service members in accordance with the current company conditions and legislation.
• A professional team that values autonomy, initiative, and responsibility.
• Opportunity to influence the development of the legal function and internal processes.

The search is conducted in a confidential format, so the company name is disclosed at later stages of the selection process after signing the NDA.

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