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Fluence is the leading global energy storage technology and services company, created and backed by Siemens and AES, two industry powerhouses and pioneers in energy storage. Fluence unites the scale, experience, breadth, and financial backing of the two most experienced icons in energy storage.

Our mission is to create a more sustainable future by transforming the way we power our world. Energy storage is critical to this transformation, yet today the market is fragmented and customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner amidst conflicting technical claims, inexperienced vendors and installers, and new market entrants with limited power sector knowledge.

Fluence brings the proven technology solutions and services that overcome the commercial and regulatory barriers that stand in the way of modernizing our energy networks. We are the partner that can deliver at a global scale with the most experienced and knowledgeable team in the world.

About Fluence: Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimization software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. 

You are responsible, agile, leading and fun. (Hint: these are Fluence’s core values, and we mean it. Seriously.)

You have a “generalist” background and gained a minimum of 5 years of experience drafting, interpreting, and negotiating contracts in a civil law county. You have also seen and worked on a wide variety of other matters that come across the table of an in-house lawyer in a small legal department.

You are interested in IT, Legal Tech, and thinking out of the box on how legal departments are working. improving the processes of a legal department.

You read legalese fluently, but you never, ever speak legalese. You enjoy boring your family and friends with your vast knowledge of legal matters that come up in the life of an international group of companies.

A significant part of our business is impacted by public and private tenders: You feel at home in interpreting and supporting complex tender responses and your way through associated codes and legal rules

You probably began your career by laboring happily in a swanky law firm or have been exposed to the joy of an in-house legal department.

You have excellent judgment, both in business and interpersonal matters, except you like lawyers. You can win the day for your client, and the other side thinks you’re awesome. People sometimes tell you “Wow, I didn’t know lawyers could be cool.”

Ideally, you have some experience in industrial equipment, construction or utility projects. If your experience comes from the renewable energy or energy storage sector and/or involves public procurement processes, we might think you are very fancy indeed.

You have impeccable ethics and a commitment to compliance and safety. (We don’t make jokes about compliance or safety.)

You exude strong interpersonal skills, flexibility and a highly self-motivated work style. In a room full of industrial-grade rock stars, you’ll blend in like a chameleon.

Fluence’s core values are: Responsible, Agile, Leading and Fun. What on earth does that mean for you?

Fluence is defined by our unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity. We take personal ownership in what we do, developing trust in our relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We firmly believe in having honest, forthcoming, and fair communications.

This role will support the EMEA Management and all Fluence functions in managing and mastering their legal challenges. The office is not located in a legal ivory tower – you are expected to be a part of the team and add value in close interactions with your peers.

In other words, you will be a lawyer in a broad and customer-facing role, and all of us are responsible for great customer service.

Here at Fluence, we strive to continuously improve, to be intellectually curious and be adaptive to our customers’ and employees’ needs. Collaboration is key, both in our partnerships with our customers, and with each other. Fluence prioritizes the most critical efforts that allow for the greatest impact.

This role will support the EMEA region. The subject matter, technical details and personalities will be numerous and varied.

Job location is flexible. (What? Really? Yes!) Within EMEA, we have a physical office in Erlangen, Germany, so occasional travel to this location and to all other places where the business needs legal eagles should be expected, along with other occasional business travel. But this role, like most of our “office” roles, will work remotely most of the time.

Most Fluence people wear multiple hats. On any given day you might provide overflow legal support on any topic, from contracting to employment law, privacy, intellectual property, real estate, or simply corporate housekeeping. Nobody at Fluence says “that’s not my job!”

Our lingua franca is English. You should have business fluent command of German and if you spoke Polish, that would just be awesome