Head of Legal (SaaS)

Location: Paris, France; hybrid work

Company

hirify.global is an outbound sales platform for finding leads, running multichannel campaigns, personalizing outreach with AI, and booking meetings; lempire also builds lemwarm, Claap, Taplio, and Tweet Hunter. The group has over $60M ARR, is growing approximately 50% year over year, is profitable and bootstrapped, and has 180 employees.

What you will do

• Build and scale the legal function from scratch across lempire, working directly with the COO, CEO, and business teams.
• Negotiate enterprise SaaS contracts, partnerships, and key supplier agreements; help Sales unblock deals and handle complex negotiations.
• Create contract templates, legal intake processes, and negotiation playbooks so standard work can become self-serve.
• Own corporate governance, board and shareholder decisions, BSPCE, the US entity, Claap’s legal integration, and support future acquisitions with external counsel.
• Partner with HR on employment contracts, terminations, disputes, CSE, and profit-sharing agreements; oversee GDPR, data privacy, data provider agreements, T&Cs, NDAs, leases, and other legal matters.
• Decide what to handle in-house versus outsource, manage external counsel, and build simple AI-first processes that reduce repetitive work and unnecessary bureaucracy.

Requirements

• 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: understand trade-offs and recommend solutions rather than only flagging risks.
• Builder mindset: autonomous, hands-on, and pragmatic.
• Comfort owning unfamiliar legal topics and working with specialists when needed.
• Fluent French and English, with knowledge of French law and experience supporting international customers and employees.

Nice to have

• Experience as the first or sole legal hire.
• Experience with a US entity or international contracts.
• Experience in employment law, GDPR, or buy-side M&A.

Culture & Benefits

• First legal hire with full ownership and direct access to the COO and CEO.
• Opportunity to support enterprise sales, international expansion, M&A, and AI initiatives in a growing SaaS group.
• Business-first culture focused on clear recommendations, speed, action, and practical solutions.
• Profitable, bootstrapped environment with an emphasis on reducing bureaucracy and automating repetitive work.

Hiring process

• Interview with the TA Lead and COO.
• Business case covering contract negotiation and business judgment, followed by interviews with Sales and Partnerships leaders.
• Final interview with the CEO, reference checks, and offer.