Head of Legal

<h2>About us 👇🏼</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">lemlist is the outbound platform for sales teams: find leads, run multichannel campaigns (email, LinkedIn, calls), personalize with AI and book meetings.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">lempire also builds lemwarm (deliverability), Claap (AI call intelligence), Taplio and Tweet Hunter.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're at +$60M ARR, growing ~50% year over year, profitable and 100% bootstrapped, with 180 people.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re now moving upmarket, signing larger deals, expanding our partnerships, working with data providers, and integrating acquisitions like Claap.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Until now, all our legal work has been handled by external law firms.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We’re hiring our first Head of Legal to build and scale the function from scratch.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Mission</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build lemlist’s legal function from scratch and help us move faster, close bigger deals, and scale without unnecessary risk</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ll own legal across lempire, working directly with the COO, CEO, and business teams.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Your job: help us close deals faster, protect what matters, and make smart business decisions.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Commercial contracts will take ~50% of your time. The rest covers corporate, employment, privacy, M&amp;A, and everything else a scaling SaaS group needs.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You won’t be expected to know everything. You’ll handle what you can, bring in specialists when needed.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What you will own</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Commercial contracts (~50%)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Negotiate enterprise SaaS contracts, partnerships, and key supplier agreements</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help Sales unblock deals and navigate complex negotiations</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build templates and playbooks to make standard contracts self-serve</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Corporate &amp; M&amp;A (~20%)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own corporate governance, board/shareholder decisions, BSPCE, and our US entity</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead Claap’s legal integration and support future acquisitions with external counsel</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Employment (~20%)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with HR on contracts, terminations, disputes, CSE, and profit-sharing agreements</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Privacy &amp; other legal matters (~10%)</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Oversee GDPR, data privacy, and data provider agreements with external specialists (DPO)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Handle T&amp;Cs, NDAs, leases, and other legal matters</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build the legal function</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Become the go-to person for all legal matters</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Decide what to bring in-house vs. outsource and manage external counsel</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build simple, AI-first processes that scale without unnecessary bureaucracy</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>How you’ll work</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Business first: You give clear recommendations, not just a list of risks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Full ownership: You take responsibility, even outside your core expertise</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bias for action: You move fast, build from scratch and automate repetitive work</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">AI-first: You use AI and modern/ tech tools daily to work smarter</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What success looks like</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Within 3 months:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Complete a legal audit and define your priorities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Become the single point of contact for legal across lemlist</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set up legal intake, contract templates, and Sales negotiation playbooks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take ownership of external counsel, corporate obligations, and ongoing employment matters</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Within 12 months:</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reduce standard contract review turnaround to 2 business days</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Make NDAs and standard contracts self-serve</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bring recurring legal work in-house and optimize external counsel spend</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ensure corporate governance runs smoothly</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build a scalable legal function that helps the business move faster</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Who we’re looking for</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Must have</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">6+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience in a tech startup, scale-up, or SaaS company.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong expertise in B2B SaaS contracts and commercial negotiations</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Business judgment: you understand trade-offs and recommend solutions, not just flag risks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Builder mindset: autonomous, hands-on, pragmatic</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable owning unfamiliar legal topics and working with specialists</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Fluent French and English (French law, international customers/ employees)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Nice to have</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">First or sole legal hire experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">US entity / international contracts</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Employment law, GDPR, or buy-side M&amp;A experience</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We don’t need someone who knows every area of law; we need someone who knows how to get things done.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Why join lempire?</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build it your way: First legal hire, full ownership, direct access to COO/CEO</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Front-row seat to $200m ARR SaaS: Enterprise sales, international expansion, M&amp;A, AI</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Real impact: Your work directly influences growth, risk, and business decisions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Speed over bureaucracy: Profitable, bootstrapped, ambitious</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Recruitment process</strong></h2><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interview with Victoire (TA Lead)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interview with Oriane (COO)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Business case (Contract negotiation &amp; business judgment)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interviews with Sales &amp; Partnerships Leaders</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Final interview with Charles (CEO)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reference checks &amp; offer</p></li></ol><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr">Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>