People — Employment and Labor Law (France)

Location: Anywhere in France; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is building a prevention-insurance company that integrates insurance, prevention, and care into one user experience, serving more than 1M members through 40K+ companies.

What you will do

• Act as the in-house expert on French individual and collective employment and labour law, especially working time, night work, on-call rules and rest periods.
• Monitor French labour-law developments, identify relevant changes, and use AI agents for legal watch and compliance checks.
• Convert legal obligations into practical tools, processes and a tracked obligations register, including health and safety at work.
• Support labour inspections, URSSAF audits, compliance reporting, CSE information-consultations, social elections and company agreements.
• Assess People-related risks in new health services and evolving legal entities, while supporting external counsel and occasional topics in other countries.
• Share legal expertise with the People team and use AI and automation to increase the impact of the work.

Requirements

• Legal background in French employment and social law, such as an M2 in droit social.
• Around 4+ years of hands-on experience applying French employment law, typically in a law firm or as a lawyer who has moved into a People role.
• Expertise in both individual and collective employment matters.
• Excellent French at negotiation level and professional English are required.
• Ability to provide practical, business-oriented advice, assess material versus theoretical risk, and work within a scale-up's risk appetite.
• Transversal mindset with interest in compliance, international expansion and related People topics.
• Autonomy, initiative, early risk escalation, rigorous and concise writing, and clear ownership of deliverables.
• Curiosity, openness to feedback, sound judgement and discretion with confidential information and sensitive human situations.
• Daily use of AI with a critical approach to its output.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with CSE meetings, information-consultations, social elections or company agreements.
• Experience in healthcare, insurance, a regulated environment or a scale-up.
• M&A or reorganisation experience.
• Exposure to Belgian or Spanish jurisdictions.

Culture & Benefits

• Join a 13-person People team covering compliance, employment law, payroll, employee experience, compensation, learning and international expansion.
• Work closely with the People Compliance owner, People lead, individual situations crew and hirify.global's Compliance Key Function.
• Hybrid work based anywhere in France.
• Operate in a prevention-focused health mission and a scale-up environment with a pragmatic approach to legal risk.
• Target hiring level: C0–D.