Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel Become Solar Foods' first in-house lawyer and play a defining role in the international growth of a publicly listed technology company. APPLY NOW Vastaamme yleensä päivän sisällä There will only ever be one first in-house lawyer. Join Solar Foods and help build the legal foundations of one of Finland's most pioneering technology companies! At Solar Foods, we believe the future of food can be built differently. Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from research conducted at VTT and LUT University, Solar Foods has developed a groundbreaking technology that combines renewable electricity and bioprocess engineering to produce food beyond the limits of traditional agriculture. Today, we are a publicly listed Finnish technology company accelerating international commercialisation, expanding our production capabilities and building a completely new future for food through science, innovation and sustainability. Learn more about us: Solar Foods . Build more than a legal function As Senior Legal Counsel, you will work side by side with our CEO, leadership team and colleagues across the organization at one of the most exciting stages of Solar Foods' journey. As our first in-house lawyer, you'll establish how legal supports the business, helping Solar Foodists make informed decisions while balancing legal excellence with business objectives and laying the legal foundations for our next stage of international growth. This role is designed for someone who enjoys working close to where decisions are made, takes ownership and wants to see the direct impact of their expertise. Your contribution will extend far beyond legal advice: you will help the business move forward with confidence as a trusted legal advisor. What will your everyday work look like? Your work will be broad, varied and genuinely international. While no two days are exactly alike, five key themes will define your role. 1. Enabling commercial growth A significant part of your work will focus on drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial agreements, strategic partnerships and technology collaborations. Working closely with customers, suppliers and commercial teams across multiple markets, you'll help create agreements that support Solar Foods' continued commercialization. 2. Protecting innovation You'll help safeguard one of Solar Foods' greatest competitive advantages—its technology. Together with external patent attorneys and specialist advisors, you'll support intellectual property matters, licensing questions and innovation-related legal work in a company where technology lies at the very core of the business. 3. Ensuring listed-company compliance and governance As a publicly listed company, Solar Foods operates in a regulated environment where legal advice must support transparency, good governance and market confidence. You will advise on listed-company obligations, disclosure matters, insider management, stock exchange rules, governance documentation and shareholder meeting processes. Working closely with our CFO, you will help ensure that the company meets its regulatory responsibilities while continuing to grow. 4. Partnering across the business Whether supporting commercial and delivery teams or senior leadership, you'll translate complex legal questions into practical, commercially sound advice. Your role is to help colleagues make informed decisions while balancing legal excellence with business objectives. 5. Establishing legal operations As Solar Foods' first in-house lawyer, you'll have the opportunity to define how legal operates across the organization, including managing external law firms and advisors. You will develop governance, ways of working and practical legal processes that evolve alongside the company as it continues to grow. You will report to our CEO Rami Jokela. The role carries significant strategic influence across the organization and provides the opportunity to contribute to leadership discussions and the continued development of the company, even though the role is not part of the company’s Leadership Team. The role is based primarily at our headquarters in Vantaa. We believe innovation, collaboration and learning happen best when people work closely together, which is why we value spending time at the office while naturally supporting flexible hybrid work whenever appropriate. The position includes approximately 30–50 travel days annually, mainly related to strategic partnerships and business activities across Europe, the United States and Asia. What are we looking for and what can you expect from us? We are looking for someone with genuine drive, curiosity and ownership, someone who enjoys creating rather than maintaining. You have a Master of Laws degree and several years of relevant legal experience, most likely around 10+ years, although the substance and relevance of your experience are more important than the exact number of years. You are comfortable working independently, making sound legal judgements and acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders. Commercial contracts, strategic partnerships and complex negotiations are familiar territory to you. You understand how legal can support business growth and have experience working in an international environment where legal questions often involve multiple jurisdictions and stakeholders. Experience as an in-house lawyer is essential, as well as experience in a publicly listed company including corporate governance and financing-related matters. We also hope you have experience with intellectual property, particularly in technology-driven businesses where innovation and patents play an important strategic role. Experience working alongside external law firms and specialist advisors is equally important, as you will coordinate legal support across a broad range of matters. While experience within the technology sector, industrial businesses or other highly regulated environments is valuable, we are ultimately looking for someone who quickly understands new businesses, asks thoughtful questions and enjoys learning. You are energized by ambitious goals, naturally build trust across different teams and enjoy solving complex challenges together with the business. You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on mindset and understand how legal can accelerate business rather than slow it down. Above all, you're inspired by Solar Foods' mission. You're motivated by meaningful work, enjoy taking responsibility and are excited by the opportunity to help shape a function that will continue to evolve alongside one of Finland's most ambitious technology companies. Why join Solar Foods now? Solar Foods is entering into one of the most exciting chapters in its history. Commercialisation is accelerating. Factory 02 is becoming reality. International partnerships continue to expand, and significant investments are enabling the company's next stage of growth. As our first in-house lawyer, you'll play a central role from the very beginning. During your first years, you'll support commercialisation, strategic partnerships and the legal work surrounding our next production facility. As Solar Foods continues to expand internationally, your role will evolve alongside the business, creating exceptional opportunities to broaden both your responsibilities and your impact. There will only ever be one first in-house lawyer. Joining Solar Foods means becoming part of a company with global ambitions, working alongside exceptional colleagues and having the opportunity to shape both the business and your own role as the company grows. Ready to build with us? This recruitment is carried out in collaboration with Paragraaffi. If you are inspired by the opportunity to combine legal excellence with international business, breakthrough technology and meaningful impact, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV together with a cover letter addressing the following questions: Why are you interested in becoming Solar Foods' first in-house lawyer? What experience, expertise and perspective would you bring to Solar Foods and our next stage of growth? Paragraaffi conducts interviews throughout the application period, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible. The application deadline is 23 August 2026 . The recruitment process consists of two interview rounds first by Teams in the beginning of September and the second one face-to-face at Solar Foods' headquarters in Vantaa mid-September. Candidates progressing further in the process will be invited to complete a business case designed around real-life themes relevant to the role . Final candidates will also participate in a professional assessment as part of the overall evaluation process. Since all duties at Solar Foods require precision, reliability, independent judgement, and a good ability to react, the employer has the right to require all new employees to undergo drug tests, performed by the occupational health care service provider. For more information about the position, please contact: Katariina Tuomela, CEO & Senior Legal Talent Consultant ( [email protected] , 040 5765 709) OR Joel Kurki, Legal Talent Consultant ( [email protected] , 050 556 6570). Paragraaffi is a recruitment agency specializing in legal professionals. We create meaningful careers, bring together employers and legal professionals, build effective teams, and advance the legal profession by producing comprehensive annual research and cooperating with various stakeholders in the legal field. We promote equality and we are committed to a legal profession that is diverse, non-discriminatory and open to all. Department Oikeustieteen maisteri Sijainnit Solar Foods Oyj Etätyömahdollisuus Hybridi Solar Foods Oyj Paragraaffi Oy yrityksenä Paragraaffi on juridiikan alan työelämätalo, jossa yhdistyvät yli 40 vuoden kokemus ja rohkeus uudistua . Olemme auttaneet satoja organisaatioita löytämään juuri oikeat juristit, ja verkostomme on maan laajin – täynnä osaajia kaikissa uravaiheissa opiskelijoista lakiasiainjohtajiin. Tavoitteenamme on yhdistää alan työnantajat ja asiantuntijat, luoda merkityksellisiä työuria ja moderneja tiimejä sekä tukea juristiammattikunnan kehitystä. Liittymällä verkostoomme saat tiedon myös hiljaisista hauista.