Your Role
As a Legal, Commercial and Finance Lead, you will be responsible for building and maintaining Orbint’s contractual, commercial, financial, and documentation backbone. You will support customer, supplier, research, and partner relationships by preparing, reviewing, coordinating, and tracking contracts, NDAs, purchase orders, subcontractor agreements, invoices, budgets, funding documents, and commercial project records.
Your role is central to turning complex legal, commercial, and financial information into a structured, traceable, and decision-ready operating system for Orbint’s space and defence activities.
About You
We do not expect a perfect match to every bullet point, but you should recognize yourself in most of the profile below.
Core Legal, Commercial & Finance Profile
- Background in Business Law, Law, Business Administration, Finance, Tax, Accounting, Controlling, or a comparable field.
- Experience in contract administration, legal operations, procurement, accounting, controlling, audit preparation, grant documentation, or commercial project management.
- Strong understanding of contracts, obligations, deadlines, payment terms, budgets, invoices, cost documentation, and commercial risks.
- Maintain finance trackers for budgets, actual costs, forecasts, liquidity planning, commitments, open invoices, and upcoming payment obligations.
- Support management, accounting, tax advisors, and external partners with structured documentation and financial follow-up.
- Confident with Word, Excel, structured file systems, financial trackers, and ideally accounting, contract, or project management tools.
- Ability to identify and escalate legal, commercial, tax, IP, confidentiality, liability, procurement, compliance, and financial risks.
Space / Defence / Technology Domain
Prior experience or interest in space, aerospace, defence, security, research, engineering, or high-technology environments is a strong plus but not necessary.
General
- Structured, analytical working style with strong ownership and very high reliability.
- Ability to bring order into complex, incomplete, or fast-moving documentation.
- Strong communication skills: you can coordinate clearly with management, engineers, suppliers, customers, accountants, lawyers, and public project partners.
- High attention to detail and a strong sense for confidentiality, deadlines, and documentation quality.
- Very good command of English and German, spoken and written.
- Eligibility for security clearance.
Why Orbint
At Orbint, you will be joining an ambitious team where your work directly supports a new space-based SIGINT capability for European defence and security. You will help build the contractual, commercial, and financial foundation that allows our engineering teams to develop advanced RF payloads, satellites, onboard software, and ground systems for real operational users.
How to Apply
Please send the following to career@orbint.de:
- CV
- A brief motivation letter explaining how you became aware of Orbint, why working on space-based SIGINT for defence and security users is motivating for you, and how your previous experience would strengthen the Orbint team.
- References to prior relevant work, if permissible, such as contract administration, finance tracking, grant documentation, audit preparation, procurement, legal operations, or commercial project work.
- Your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.