Senior Legal Counsel

The role

The Senior Legal Counsel will build and scale the legal function from scratch. You will own commercial contracts, corporate governance, employment, and privacy matters across lempire.

What you will do

• Negotiate enterprise SaaS contracts, partnerships, and key supplier agreements
• Help Sales unblock deals and navigate complex negotiations
• Build templates and playbooks to make standard contracts self-serve
• Own corporate governance, board/shareholder decisions, BSPCE, and the US entity
• Lead Claap's legal integration and support future acquisitions
• Partner with HR on contracts, terminations, disputes, CSE, and profit-sharing agreements
• Oversee GDPR, data privacy, and data provider agreements
• Handle T&Cs, NDAs, leases, and other legal matters
• Decide what to bring in-house vs outsource and manage external counsel
• Build simple, AI-first processes

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience in a tech startup, scale-up, or SaaS company
• Strong expertise in B2B SaaS contracts and commercial negotiations
• Business judgment to understand trade-offs and recommend solutions
• Builder mindset: autonomous, hands-on, pragmatic
• Comfortable owning unfamiliar legal topics and working with specialists
• Fluent French and English

Nice to have

• First or sole legal hire experience
• US entity / international contracts
• Employment law, GDPR, or buy-side M&A experience

About the company

lemlist is the outbound platform for sales teams. Lempire also builds lemwarm, Claap, Taplio and Tweet Hunter.