Senior Manager Legal & Partnerships, Germany

Job description

About Zeno Zeno is a legal AI startup building a platform that helps lawyers, notaries and other legal professionals research, review, and draft documents with real legal reasoning, not just text prediction. We’re developing technology that can: Search and retrieve statutes, case law, and commentary with high precision. Reason step-by-step, applying legal tests and weighing precedents. Explain every answer transparently, so legal professionals can trace conclusions back to the exact sources. Where most tools automate surface-level tasks, we’re focused on replicating the way lawyers actually think through legal problems, making depth and trust the foundation of everything we build. You’re joining an early-stage startup that is already working with leading firms. Backed with €3M in seed funding, we’re now scaling a team that wants to solve real problems, drive innovation, and create lasting change in the legal sector. The role Help building a world-class team to redefine knowledge work with AI We are looking for a German-qualified lawyer to lead Zeno's legal partnerships and legal affairs in Germany. You will be part of the global Legal & Partnerships team and work closely with the founders, product team, and Head of Legal & Partnerships to support Zeno's growth in the German market. This is a unique role that combines external market development with substantive legal work. You will help build relationships with leading law firms, legal departments and notaries, while also serving as a trusted legal partner within Zeno on commercial, regulatory, compliance, and strategic matters. As Zeno's first senior legal hire focused on Germany, you will help shape our market strategy, legal positioning, partnership approach and internal legal function. You will work at the intersection of law, technology, product, and business, helping ensure that our growth is commercially successful and legally sound. This role is ideal for someone who has practiced law, understands the German legal market, and wants to apply that expertise in a fast-growing legal technology company. What you’ll do You will take ownership of Zeno’s early legal partnerships in Germany. In practice, that means you will: build and manage relationships with law firms, notaries, and legal departments in Germany; support legal, regulatory, and compliance matters relevant to operating an AI company in German…