About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, with 140 team members between France and the USA.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian.

GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, observability and proactive prevention of leaks. 

Our solutions are already used by more than 600K developers worldwide!

About your team and your mission

GitGuardian's Legal team drives strategic growth while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk management. Through close collaboration with Go-to-Market, R&D, and Finance teams, we navigate complex legal challenges, streamline processes, and facilitate business success.

In recent years, our team has achieved significant milestones: modernizing contract management processes, enhancing compliance frameworks, and fostering strategic partnerships. We have been instrumental in enabling international expansion by establishing robust legal foundations across multiple jurisdictions.

We are looking for an ambitious Legal Operations Intern who combines strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills and a pragmatic, business-oriented approach. In this role, you will work directly under the mentorship of our Legal Counsel, Anne-Sophie, while collaborating closely with Yohann, our Finance Director.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Legal and contractual support

• Draft, review, and manage contracts and agreements (e.g., NDAs, supplier agreements, customer contracts). This includes working across teams to support negotiations, empower customer and supplier facing teams and ensure contracts are aligned with business objectives.
• Maintain and optimize GitGuardian's contract management database.

Regulatory and compliance support

• Support regulatory monitoring and filling, ensuring compliance with local and international standards such as AI governance, GDPR and data protection regulations.

Corporate governance

• Support teams on corporate issues, ensuring compliance with French and US governance requirements.

Operational support & continuous improvement

• Work closely with various teams (GTM, R&D, Finance, HR) to provide legal advice and support.
• Actively participate in the development and improvement of legal processes and workflows, including but not limited to standardisation of templates, updating of internal policies and procedures, improvement of automation.

About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

• You must be able to deliver an *internship agreement* (“convention de stage”) for the whole duration of your internship;
• A Master 2 in law (business law preferred), LL.M. from a US-accredited university welcomed;
• At least 1 year of experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department on commercial matters;
• Bilingual (or fluent) level in English and French;
• Organizational skills: ability to work on various topics and attention to detail. You will learn from the team to slowly gain autonomy on your daily tasks;
• Soft skills: creativity, curiosity, and humility are key to the role. You have an enthusiastic personality, you are willing to learn and wish to evolve in a challenging environment.
  

The interview process

1. Screening call with a team member (20min)

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Interview with your future manager

To know more about yourself and your achievements, present to you the team, to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

3. Interview with a Senior Manager

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

Benefits

• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
• 🎡 Team building: monthly activities for the whole company + dedicated budget that you can spend as you want with teammates! (last examples: karaoke, karting, restaurant, ...)
• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you

And also...

• 🏡 Hybrid remote policy: at least 3 days/week at the office
• 👫 Trust & autonomy on your scope with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development
• 👊 Working on a meaningful product; we already helped more than 600k developers across the globe
• 🚀 Potential opportunities for career development in the long term
• Learn more about our culture in our Starter Guide.

More about GitGuardian!

Products

• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
• Learn how GitGuardian works in this video!
• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 security app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
• Read former interns' testimonies!
• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time.

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender identity on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.