Senior Specialist, Legal

Company Description

Foodora is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform. Our mission is to provide an amazing experience – quickly, easily, and right to your doorstep. We operate in approximately 65 countries worldwide. Our headquarters are located in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock index.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Specialist, Legal  to join our local team at foodora Czechia on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

The mission of our local Legal team is to safeguard foodora's fast-paced operations in the Czech Republic by providing versatile, pragmatic, and business-focused legal guidance. This dedicated role is responsible for navigating the complex local commercial landscape, as well as transforming our internal HR compliance processes. By collaborating closely with the local Business Operations, Commercial, and People departments, we aim to drive commercial success, operational excellence, and foster a seamless experience for our partners, riders, and employees.

The ideal candidate is a versatile legal generalist with a strong focus on Czech employment law. You will act as a true business enabler, handling day-to-day commercial legal operations while taking ownership of complex labor relations on the local market. This role requires a hands-on, resilient professional with strong commercial acumen who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves to draft commercial agreements, remediate legacy HR issues, build robust structures, and manage gig-economy compliance. As a Legal Counsel, you will work as a strong gatekeeper and strategic partner, proactively ensuring compliance with Czech legislation without compromising our fast-paced growth and operational agility.

• Acting as a versatile local legal business partner, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial contracts under Czech law (e.g., vendor, partner restaurant, marketing, and service agreements)

• Serving as the go-to expert and proactive sparring partner for our local HR team, helping to structure, streamline, and remediate internal processes to mitigate legal risks while supporting commercial objectives

• Providing hands-on, practical, and commercially viable legal guidance on gig-economy and platform worker topics specific to the Czech market,

• Partnering directly with the local business operations to deeply understand their goals, delivering legal solutions that enable, rather than block, innovation and market expansion in the CZ region

• Developing and managing standardized local templates for both commercial agreements and employment policies, ensuring global guidelines are properly localized for the Czech legal framework

• Bridging the gap between strict legal requirements and fast-paced business needs by building pragmatic compliance strategies, risk-assessments, and smart workarounds

• Engaging in the resolution of commercial and labor disputes, communicating with local authorities, and managing potential litigation or settlement negotiations

• Providing firm guidance, training, and support to both business and HR team members, translating complex legal jargon into clear, actionable business advice

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Law from a Czech university (Mgr.)

• At least 3 years of experience in a Legal Counsel or Attorney/Associate role, ideally as a corporate generalist with a heavy focus on Czech Employment/Labor Law, or an employment lawyer with strong commercial contract experience

• Full professional proficiency in Czech and English (both written and spoken) is a must

• Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of balancing legal risks with operational speed, business goals, and bottom-line results

• You are resilient and possess a proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations, effectively guiding both business and HR teams toward operational excellence

• You love delivering solutions and think out of the box to solve legal obstacles, with a track record of "cleaning up" legacy processes and implementing robust, scalable frameworks

• You have deep expertise in navigating Czech labor regulations,

• You work independently, assertively, and collaboratively in a fast-paced, highly commercial, and unstructured environment

• You are able to anticipate business needs, push back when necessary, and drive compliance initiatives forward without stifling innovation
   

Nice to have:

• Prior in-house experience in the food delivery, e-commerce, gig-economy, or fast-moving logistics sector within the CEE region

• Experience with translating and implementing global corporate policies into local Czech operations

• Experience communicating with Czech regulatory bodies

Additional Information

At foodora (part of Delivery Hero group), we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.