Senior Legal Counsel Banking Law

About the Opportunity

N26 is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel Banking Law to further expand our legal expertise. In this key role, you will be part of our Banking Law & Litigation Team and serve as a strategic partner to management and the Executive Board.

Your focus will be on the legal architecture and risk mitigation for groundbreaking financial products. You will shape the future of digital banking by translating complex regulatory requirements into legally sound concepts, from scaling our banking, trading, and crypto offerings to entering new European markets.

In doing so, you will balance agility with the highest standards of compliance, ensuring that our product vision always aligns with regulatory law.

In this role you will:

• Work within the N26 Legal Department in our Banking Law & Litigation Team, contributing to the launch and scaling of forward-looking banking and financial products (e.g., Trading & Crypto).

• Provide holistic advice to management and the Executive Board on all legal matters relating to existing and new banking, trading, and financial products.

• Evaluate complex regulatory requirements and develop legally sound concepts for new products in a dynamic environment.

• Collaborate closely with the Product and Compliance teams, ensuring that innovation and regulatory compliance go hand in hand.

• Act as the point of contact for regulatory audits and confidently manage communication with supervisory authorities.

• Independently coordinate

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