General Counsel
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JobgetherTechnology software
Based in France, EMEA time zonesFull-TimeExecutive
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Outstanding written and verbal English skills
Requirements
- Demonstrate exceptional academic performance at secondary-school and university levels.
- Hold a law degree or equivalent qualification and an active license to practice in an EMEA or Americas jurisdiction.
- Have substantial senior in-house legal experience in a global technology or software business with complex international operations.
- Have experience leading distributed legal teams, including managers across multiple regions and time zones.
- Demonstrate experience hiring, coaching, developing, and holding teams accountable to high performance standards.
- Have experience building, scaling, or restructuring an in-house legal function and managing work with external counsel.
- Bring strong experience negotiating commercial technology agreements, including enterprise software, subscription, reseller, hardware, and cloud-services agreements.
- Have a deep understanding of permissive and copyleft open-source licensing and practical familiarity with open-source communities.
- Have experience with or readiness for public-company governance, listing preparation, Board support, disclosure requirements, and internal controls.
- Have significant expertise in at least two of data protection and privacy, intellectual property and trademarks, export controls and trade compliance, competition law, or disputes.
- Have outstanding written and verbal English skills, including legal drafting, presentation, and executive communication capabilities.
- Be willing and able to travel internationally approximately two to four times per year for company events lasting up to two weeks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global Legal and Compliance function across EMEA and the Americas, establishing its structure, priorities, standards, and operating model.
- Build and manage a distributed legal team by hiring and developing managers, setting objectives, and maintaining performance standards.
- Establish intake, prioritization, workload management, risk reporting, and executive visibility for legal work.
- Own legal readiness for a future public-market environment, including governance, entity structures, policies, disclosure controls, and related processes.
- Advise senior executives and the Board on legal, regulatory, commercial, governance, and risk matters.
- Own the commercial contracting framework, including standard agreements, negotiation positions, and escalation processes.
- Lead intellectual property and open-source licensing strategy, including copyleft and permissive licensing, trademarks, and software distribution.
- Own the global compliance program across privacy, export controls, anti-bribery, competition law, and emerging AI regulation.
- Manage litigation, disputes, regulatory engagements, and the external counsel network.
- Provide legal guidance on M&A, partnerships, strategic alliances, financing, and other major corporate initiatives.
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