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# Legal - Working Student at Hawk

- **Company:** Hawk
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hawk/72b99407-040a-4154-b565-e026512fe88d/application

**Skills:** Commercial law, Corporate law, Tech law, Financial regulatory law, AML, Data protection, Employment law, English, German

> Support the Legal team with contract review, regulatory research, and legal operations within a SaaS environment. Gain hands-on experience in commercial law, fintech regulation, and cross-functional collaboration while contributing to impactful projects.

## Job description

## About Us

Hawk is the leading provider of AI-supported anti-money laundering and fraud detection technology. Banks and payment providers globally are using Hawk’s powerful combination of traditional rules and explainable AI to improve the effectiveness of their AML compliance and fraud prevention by identifying more crime while maximizing efficiency by reducing false positives. With our solution, we are playing a vital role in the global fight against Money Laundering, Fraud, or the financing of terrorism. We offer a culture of mutual trust, support and passion – while providing individuals with opportunities to grow professionally and make a difference in the world.

Your Mission:

As a Working Student in our Legal team, you’ll support a wide variety of legal and compliance work that underpins Hawk’s global operations. From contract review to regulatory research and legal operations, you’ll gain practical experience across commercial law, fintech regulation, and cross-functional collaboration. This is a great opportunity for a motivated law student to develop hands-on skills in a fast-moving SaaS environment while contributing to impactful projects.

Key Responsibilities:

- AI & Tool Optimization, Implementing and optimizing AI-driven tools to enhance smart contract support and commercial agreement workflows.
- Legal Engineering, level up internal documentation and process checklists by utilizing AI tools and prompt engineering.
- Legal Ops & Coordination, supporting cross-functional projects through modern legal ops frameworks.
- Support digital contract workflows by reviewing, drafting, and organizing commercial, vendor, and partnership agreements, while helping to implement and optimize AI-driven tools.
- Assist with legal research across areas such as financial regulation, AML/Compliance, data protection, corporate law, and employment law.
- Help maintain and level up internal legal documentation, templates, and process checklists, using modern tools, utilizing AI research tools and prompt engineering .
- Support regulatory and compliance activities, including monitoring changes in regulations and updating internal stakeholders.
- Participate in cross-functional projects, assisting Legal in collaborating with teams such as Sales, Product, People, and Finance.

Qualifications:

- Currently enrolled (and available for at least the next 6 months) in a law degree program.
- Strong interest in AI, tech, legal operations, fintech, or compliance regulations (AML, data protection, financial regulation).
- Ability to visualize and document legal processes to help the team identify inefficiencies.
- Strong English skills (C1 or above); German skills are a plus and helpful for reviewing documents.
- Detail-oriented, organised, and able to handle multiple tasks reliably.
- Comfortable working independently, taking initiative, and asking questions proactively.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Reliability and discretion when handling confidential information.

What You’ll Gain:

- Hands-on experience supporting an in-house legal team at a fast-growing tech company.
- Exposure to global legal topics across commercial law, compliance, data protection, and regulatory requirements.
- Insight into how legal frameworks support a SaaS business in the financial sector.
- First-hand experience in how AI is transforming the legal profession, moving beyond traditional law into Law&Tech.
- The opportunity to not just follow a process, but to re-design and automate it using modern software.
- Cross-functional exposure to teams such as Sales, Product, Customer Success, People, and Leadership.

## About Hawk

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hawk provides AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, and sanctions screening solutions to help financial institutions detect financial crime more efficiently.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total funding $83.97M)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Wolfgang Berner and Tobias Schweiger

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial crime compliance technology (AML, fraud, sanctions screening)
- **Target customers**: B2B – banks, payment firms, neobanks, fintechs, and cryptocurrency companies
- **Mission**: “Help financial institutions fight financial crime more effectively and efficiently using AI to detect more suspicious activity and reduce unnecessary alerts.”

## Products & Services
- **AML Transaction Monitoring**: AI-driven detection of suspicious transactions, reducing false positives by 70% and investigation time by 62%.
- **Screening (Watchlist & Sanctions)**: Comprehensive watchlist screening to block risky clients and sanctioned payments.
- **Fraud Prevention**: Real-time fraud blocking across all payment rails and channels.
- **FRAML (Fraud & AML Convergence)**: Unified view of financial crime risks to break down data silos and catch 30% more fraudulent customers.
- **Modular Platform**: API-first architecture that integrates with existing core banking and data systems; supports SaaS or private cloud deployment; self-serve rule creation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $83.97M (Series C of $56.97M raised ~1 year ago).
- **Notable Investors**: BlackFin Capital Partners, Picus Capital, Sands Capital, DN Capital, Coalition (and 20+ others).
- **Growth Signals**: Recognized as a “Strong Performer” in Forrester Wave™ Anti-Money-Laundering Solutions (Q2 2025); winner of Celent’s Advanced Technology award; named Daniel Marshall as Chief Customer Officer to drive global AI growth; over 200 customers; 30+ nationalities on staff.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI Precision & Explainability**: Fully transparent, auditable machine learning that regulators and teams can understand.
- **Reduced False Positives**: 70% fewer false alerts; 62% reduction in AML investigation time; 3–5x more true threats identified.
- **Flexible Deployment**: SaaS or private cloud with high-availability design; gradual AI adoption to avoid disruption.
- **Self-Serve Rule Setup**: Business users can create and adjust rules without IT or coding support.
- **Modular & Scalable**: One contract, multiple solutions; handles growing volumes and new markets.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling globally and deepening AI adoption in financial crime compliance.
- Leading the convergence of AML and fraud prevention (FRAML) for mid-market banks and credit unions.
- Maintaining transparent AI governance to meet evolving regulatory demands.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: International team of 30+ nationalities; inclusive environment focused on fighting financial crime together.
- **Work Flexibility**: Flexible work location and schedules (remote/hybrid options available).
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are motivated by protecting the financial system; values include “customer trust is our lifeblood” and “win.”
- **Awards & Recognition**: Winner of multiple industry awards; recognized by Celent and Forrester.
- **Engineering & AI Focus**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI in a real-world, high-impact domain.

## Sources
1. [Hawk Careers](https://hawk.ai/careers)
2. [Hawk Homepage](https://hawk.ai/)
3. [Hawk About Us](https://hawk.ai/about-us)
4. [Hawk Jobs on Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hawk)
5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/hawkai)

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