Legal Assistant (Remote Within Brazil)

About InPlanet:
InPlanet is a mission-driven, remote-first ClimateTech startup headquartered between Germany and Brazil with hubs in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York and London. We’re scaling Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) in tropical agriculture as a powerful method to remove carbon, regenerate soils, and transform the way food is grown in the tropics.

Our vision is simple but bold: to sequester gigatons of CO2 while regenerating tropical soils in order to create a livable planet with nutritious food and healthy ecosystems for future generations. We’re doing this in partnership with farmers, scientists, and industry leaders - and we’re growing fast.

Our company culture blends people-first care and performance excellence. The Rocket represents our ambition and drive; the Heart symbolizes our focus on empathy, integrity, and collective impact.

We’re proud of our globally diverse team and inclusive culture. Our teams span across continents, but our boots are firmly on the ground in Brazil - where the real climate impact happens.

You can check out independent reviews by other candidates on Glassdoor to check how people find interviewing with us.

Check out our Culture page here

About the Role:
Join InPlanet as a Legal Assistant and support the structuring and day-to-day maintenance of the legal and documentary foundation of our Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) operations in Brazil. This is a unique opportunity for law students or graduates to gain hands-on experience in legal operations, document management, contract drafting, and the implementation of internal legal processes, while contributing to impactful climate solutions. Your work will play a key role in ensuring legal consistency, traceability, and operational efficiency, directly supporting the scalability of ERW technology and sustainable agriculture and advancing our mission to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.

The Impact you can make

You will help ensure that InPlanet’s contracts, policies, and legal documentation are well-organized, consistently maintained, and easily traceable, supporting the legal team in keeping our legal framework aligned with national and international requirements and enabling reliable, efficient legal operations.

Core working relationships

You’ll collaborate closely with our Legal team, the operations team, external legal experts, and other teams to build and maintain a rock-solid legal structure that supports our work.

Key Responsibilities:
• Support the Legal Department by organising, structuring and maintaining legal and contractual documentation on an ongoing basis.

• Organise and maintain digital folders and document repositories to ensure clarity, consistency and easy traceability.

• Manage and control legal documents, including contracts, drafts, annexes and supporting materials, in accordance with defined internal standards.

• Screen and triage documents, organising incoming information and materials from different teams and stakeholders.

• Support the completion, formatting and organisation of contracts, templates and legal documents.

• Maintain records, histories and version control to ensure that documents and decisions are properly documented and traceable.

• Support the implementation and day-to-day execution of internal legal routines, controls and processes.

• Keep legal documentation up to date, structured and reliable to enable the legal team to operate efficiently.

• Handle legal information with confidentiality, discretion and reliability in line with internal policies and legal standards.

• Provide consistent and methodical operational support to the legal team, contributing to stability and predictability in legal operations.

You can be a Rock-Star if you have:
Core Skills & Experience

• Law student (from the 7th semester onwards) or recently graduated, with foundational knowledge of Brazilian law.

• Ability to quickly learn new tools and systems (self-learner/autodidact profile).

• Strong administrative and documental organization skills, with demonstrated attention to detail and consistency.

• Strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset, with discipline in following processes and routines.

• Comfort working with standardized processes, controls, and repetitive tasks, maintaining quality over time.

• High level of reliability, discretion, and sense of responsibility when handling sensitive legal information.

Key Qualities

• Strong communication skills in Portuguese and professional working English (legal and professional communication; full fluency is not required).

• High attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and a consistent, methodical approach to daily tasks.

• Calm, steady, and reliable working style, with the ability to maintain focus and structure under routine demands.

• A passion for climate action and sustainable agriculture.

• A problem-solving mindset, with the ability to stay calm and focused under pressure.

• A willingness to travel within Brazil for meetings and site visits, embracing every opportunity to learn.

Bonus Points (but not essential)

• Experience (academic, internship, or entry-level) supporting legal documentation, contract administration, or administrative legal routines.

• Advanced familiarity with digital tools, especially: Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, etc.); and Notion (databases, pages, trackers, records, and workflow organization).

• Exposure to environmental, sustainability, or climate-related projects, even at an academic or introductory level.

Living Our Values:
At InPlanet, we have a big vision of solving climate change, and we are looking for individuals who are genuinely passionate about making a positive difference in the world of Carbon Removal Solutions. Trust guides our actions, drive fuels our efforts, and impact is our goal.

• Trust: You believe in being kind and transparent in the workplace, fostering an environment where trust thrives and collaboration flourishes

• Drive: You possess an innate drive to take action with a hands-on, can-do attitude, propelled by urgency

• Impact: You dream big and are committed to making a meaningful difference in the world, aligning with our overarching mission to address climate change

Benefits:
• Compensation expectations and our compensation philosophy are openly discussed in the first interview with the goal of managing expectations fairly.

• Home Office Budget

• Fully Remote: Join us from anywhere within the CET (- 4/5-hour time zones).

• Personal development budget

• Language Programme Monthly Allowance

• 40+ days annual leave

• The opportunity to be autonomous, make a huge difference and belong to a vision.

• Occasional off-sites in Brazil yay!

• Laptop to fuel your productivity

InPlanet Compensation Philosophy:
At InPlanet, our philosophy revolves around ensuring fair and unbiased compensation and equitable equity pay, coupled with competitive benefits, across all regions where we operate.

The reason behind our salary range being wide or undefined at the first stages of the interview is because of our international presence and globally distributed workforce, we utilize geo ranges to account for varying pay differentials, forming a crucial part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive across diverse markets as we expand our reach.

These ranges are determined by role, level, and location, recognizing the nuanced demands of each market. The actual base pay for the selected candidate is influenced by factors such as location, skills, experience, training, business requirements, and market dynamics, with the range subject to potential adjustments in alignment with our commitment to fairness and transparency.

Application Process:
Roughly 6 hours across 3-6 weeks from CV-screening.

• Interview with Talent & People Partner or Head of People (values & motivation)

• Interview with the Hiring Manager (required core skills and competencies)

(optional third interview)

• Challenge with 3+ team members (specific task, preparation needed)

• Verbal reference check & psychometric profiling

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How to Apply:
• We kindly ask you to submit your CV in English, as this is the main language we use here at InPlanet (unless it is justified to be in Portuguese).

This job description is intended to provide a clear summary of the responsibilities, scope, and expectations associated with this opportunity. It may apply to a range of working relationships, including full-time or part-time employment as well as independent contractor or service-based arrangements, depending on the candidate's location and compliance framework. Each engagement is carefully assessed on a case-by-case basis to ensure alignment with applicable laws and InPlanet’s global operating standards.

Being an equal opportunities work provider is very important to us, and we are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions which cannot be shown to be justifiable. We design our processes to be fair and equitable, and we believe in continuous learning.

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