About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, New-York City, Boston.

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

At GitGuardian, the Legal team acts as a strategic business partner, not just a support function. We provide advice across all areas of the business—including commercial contracts, data privacy, and regulatory compliance—to fuel our international expansion.

You will join and report to Anne-Sophie, the Legal Manager, and work hand-in-hand with the Finance Department. We are a core team that ensures GitGuardian's growth is built on solid legal and financial foundations and bridges our France and US offices.

This is a front-line, strategic, 360° legal partner role for all GitGuardian teams. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-growing tech environment, enjoys getting hands-on with our product, and has a natural appetite for project management, contract management, and daily compliance.

Your main responsibilities will be:

1. Strategic Business Partnering & Negotiation

The Goal: Shorten the sales cycle and build trust with demanding clients.
Your Scope: Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements (MSAs, NDAs, Evaluation Agreements).

2. IP & Growth Enabler

The Goal: Safeguard our competitive advantage and intellectual capital.
Your Scope: Provide actionable advice on Intellectual Property matters; bridge the gap between complex legal requirements and fast-paced business goals.

3. Data Protection monitoring

The Goal: Turn compliance into a competitive asset and a mark of reliability.
Your Scope: Implementation and monitoring of privacy action plans (including but not limited to GDPR, EU Data Act, etc.).

4. Legal Ops & AI-Driven Scalability

The Goal: Make the legal function invisible yet omnipresent through automation.
Your Scope: Improve our legal process and template database. You help design and master our AI agents, leveraging them for first-level redlining, regulatory monitoring, and research. You don’t just draft documents; you optimize the tech stack to ensure the legal function scales as fast as the business.

5. Culture & Risk Awareness

The Goal: Promote a "law-aware" culture where everyone identifies risks early.
Your Scope: Build awareness sessions and translate complex regulatory changes into clear, "plain English" memos for the executive team.

Tools used: Office productivity tools and AI-based tools (e.g. Dust)

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:

• Full professional proficiency in French and English

• Legal Master degree (Master’s in Business Law, IP, Compliance, or equivalent); Compliance certifications are also an asset;

• 3-5 years of experience in a fast-paced environment as an in-house legal department or in a law-firm;

• Solid experience in contract negotiations, and experience from working within consulting, tech, or professional IT services is an advantage;

• Experience in data privacy projects;

• Pragmatic and business-oriented approach to legal advice, with a commercial mind and ability to balance legal risk with business needs;

• Proactive, attention to detail and strong organizational skills;

• You combine a "zero-error" attention to detail with the ability to distill complex legal findings into clear, actionable, and executive-ready communication;

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

• Legal Operations mindset: Interest in optimizing legal processes, implementing technology solutions, and improving operational efficiency within the legal function;

• Project Management capabilities: Proven ability to plan, coordinate, and execute legal projects from initiation to completion, including stakeholder management and timeline adherence.

The interview process

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

We will ask for your gender 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 and inclusion efforts.

1. In-depth interview with your future manager (Legal Manager)

To know more about yourself, present to you the team: missions, rituals, seniority level, and make sure you would be able to succeed in the following steps of the recruitment process. We will share insights about day-to-day collaboration, team dynamics, and how they'll support you as you settle into the role.

Skills assessed: Communication and interpersonal skills, Professional experience and skills, Motivation and alignment with company values, Understanding of the legal counsel role and its challenges, Cultural fit with the team, Self-awareness and ability to articulate career goals, Readiness for the practical assessment stage.

3. Practical case study

To prepare at home (about 1.5h) and to present to the N+1 (Legal Manager) and N+2 (Finance Director).

Skills assessed: Legal analysis and problem-solving abilities, Practical application of legal knowledge, Quality of legal reasoning under time constraints and spontaneously, Presentation and communication skills, Ability to synthesize complex information, Business acumen and pragmatic approach, Responsiveness to questions and ability to defend recommendations.

3.1 Final interview with the CEO

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

3.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.

Benefits

• 💰 Package that includes BSPCE

• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile, 12€ at 50%)

• 👟 Sponsored Wellpass (gymlib)

• 🏥 Non-charged health insurance for children (Sidecare / Generali)

• 💻 Up to €300 to improve your home office set-up

• 🌴 Yearly holiday allowance

• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you

• 🎡 Team building: monthly budget dedicated to each employee that you can spend as you wish, with colleagues (latest examples to date: Michelin star restaurant, karaoke, stand-up show, kitesurfing week-end, ...)

And also...

• 🏡 Remote policy: hybrid (3 days/week at the office in Paris)

• 📈 Opportunities for career development in the long term

More about GitGuardian!

Products

• Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!

• Want to go even further? Check out our public roadmap!

• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.

• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 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.

• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.

• You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.