Junior Legal Counsel, Picnic Technologies
German Law
Supermarket on wheels
Job no longer available
Supermarket on wheels
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Building the modern milkman - personal service and fresh products in a modern, sustainable way.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in German Law
- 1 - 3 years of relevant professional experience as a lawyer with a medium-sized or large law firm, preferably with a focus on real estate (rental) law
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and project management skills
- Proactive and hands-on mentality
- Flexible and structured way of working
- A pragmatic and commercial approach to legal matters
- Able to work independently as well as together with other legal counsels and business teams
- Fluent in English and German
What the job involves
- We are looking for a junior legal counsel to help us scale our growth in Germany
- You will work from our Amsterdam offices with the rest of the legal team located in Amsterdam and with the German business teams, especially our expansion/real estate teams, located at our Düsseldorf HQ and our other German locations
- You will get a 360 view of Picnic and work on a wide range of legal matters, both independently and together with other members of our legal team and business teams
- There will be a strong focus on real estate related topics, like rental & development contracts, but disputes and the full breadth of other compliance topics and negotiations are also in scope — the full package if you’re up to it!
- Be the backbone of our German expansion for legal topics
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of business contracts, e.g., commercial lease, supply, software, building & equipment, service agreements, and much more
- Advise internal stakeholders on legal topics arising over the course of projects and deal with questions, compliance matters, and disputes across all topics
- Provide hands-on and pragmatic legal support to the different areas of the business
- You will be part of the legal team and based in Amsterdam (at least for the first year) with regular trips to Germany (mainly Düsseldorf)
Application process
- Phone screening
- Online assessment
- Interviews
- Assessment day
- Closing interview
- Offer
Our take
Picnic is one of Europe's largest online supermarkets, quickly growing into a household name with its simple, yet innovative app and green business model. Thanks to its ‘own the supply chain’ model and daily delivery routes (as opposed to on-demand delivery), the company is able to run a low-cost business targeted at the mass market, rather than premium buyers.
One of the major factors in the company’s rampant growth since 2015 is its capacity for free delivery, enabled by these daily delivery routes. The company's fleet has grown from 4 vans to more than 1,000 electric vehicles, cutting down on carbon emissions as it serves its hundreds of thousands of users.
The company's impressive funding - which has been heavily backed by the likes of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the sum of 1.4 billion euros in funding - has enabled Picnic to expand beyond The Netherlands into Germany, France, and further afield. Picnic is well set to see continued growth and expansion as it further disrupts the grocery delivery market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$495.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jan 2024
$409.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.9bn
Company benefits
- Lunch & Learn sessions, soft-skill training, weekly free professional language courses, and the Picnic Tech Academy
- At Picnic you get the freedom to manage and implement your own projects in a scale-up culture
- Freshly prepared and healthy lunch every day, as well as snacks, fruit and drinks
- Access to Openup and Lepaya trainings
- Pension Plan
- Flexible/Hybrid Work Model
- 25 Days Vacation
Leadership
Daniel Gebler
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Researcher at VU University Amsterdam, and was the Director of R&D at Fredhopper.
Frederik Nieuwenhuys
(Co-Founder & Groenteboer)Co-founder and COO of merchandising software Fredhopper, and former Principal at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Michiel Muller
(Co-Founder)Supervisory board member of FD Mediagroep, investment committee member of InnovationQuater, and former chairman of Erasmus Trustfund.
Joris Beckers
(Co-Founder)Former brand manager at Proctor & Gamble, and co-founder of merchandising software Fredhopper.
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