Senior Legal Counsel - Business & Marketing
Your Team
As a key player of the Legal Department, you will play a cross-functional and strategic role in ensuring that the Business & Marketing teams operate within a secure and compliant legal framework.
You will act as a true business partner, advising and supporting Sales and Marketing teams on constantly-evolving business models and offerings, and serving at their dedicated point of contact.
You will be the go-to expert Business & Marketing in the Legal Department and will collaborate with other legal team members on related topics.
Your mission will include helping to create engaging and seamless user experiences for our customers while ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
You will work under the supervision of the General Counsel, with a high degree of autonomy, and in close collaboration with the rest of the Legal team
Your Missions
Your main missions will be the following:
- Create compelling risk-managed user experiences and play a strategic role in ensuring that our contracts template, business models, offers, communication and marketing campaigns comply with applicable regulations;
- Promote trust among prospects, clients and users by ensuring that the processing of their personal data is fully compliant with relevant data protection and that individual rights are respected;
- Contribute to the development and implementation of a legal strategy aimed at reducing the risk of disputes and litigations while supporting our commitment to our customer service excellence;
- Design and implement a contract performance strategy, by leveraging innovative approaches such as Legal Design and translating complex legal concepts into clear, business-oriented language;
- Create and update Terms and Conditions templates for Yousign's services, websites and technologies applicable in France, Germany and Italy;
- Manage all matters related to Yousign's contractual activities and support the execution of sustainable agreements;
- Analyse, negotiate, draft and review suppliers and partners' contracts;
- Monitor laws, regulations and case law in the technology, digital and Saas sectors that are applicable in France, Germany and Italy (with assistance of local law firms) and prepare legal memos and notes accordingly.
- Develop and share practical resources, deliver training sessions on contract negotiation, contract lifecycle management and best practices.
- Draft guidelines, policies and procedures to improve operational efficiency and strengthen the legal framework.
- Handle disputes involving clients, users, website visitors, prospects and partners.
Who are you ?
Interested in applying ? Here are the key skills that will help you thrive as Yousigns’ next Senior Legal Counsel - Business & Marketing (F/M/X) :
- You have around 6 years of experience, including significant time as an in-house Legal counsel, with a strong focus on Business & Marketing matters;
- You hold a Master's degree in French Law (License + M1 + M2) with a specialization in IP/IT or Business & International affairs - an LLM abroad is a plus;
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in both French & English;
- You’re a team player and enjoy brainstorming and solving problems collaboratively.
- You are assertive and know how to stand your ground while maintaining a constructive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Ideally, you have experience working in a Tech/SaaS company;
- Experience in a highly regulated industry is a strong advantage.
- Previous collaboration with German/Italian business teams is also a plus.
Don’t meet every single requirement? No worries ! We still encourage you to apply and tell us why you’d be a good fit for the position. Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application with care.
What will you find at Yousign ?
- A dynamic scale-up that puts people first
- A management style that encourages autonomy and cohesion, through common Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
- Top-notch work culture and methods
- Regular team events and bi-annual company meetings
- Numerous perks & benefits, such as: charity day offered, ESOP, remote equipment, private health and life insurance (Alan), learning & talent development advantages, CSE, Moka.Care subscription and more!
Recruitment Process
A first interview with a Lead Talent Acquisition Manager
An interview with your future manager, Camille Helloco
A Business case with Camille and one of our in-house legal counsel
A interview with Sara Godest, our VP Sales
A final interview with Nicolas Roux, our CFO
Equal Opportunity at Yousign
At Yousign, we embrace uniqueness and ensure every team member has an equal chance to contribute.
We offer equal job opportunities and maintain transparent, fair processes across the board, including pay. 🟰💰
Join us at Yousign, where our differences fuel creativity and strength — Let's leap into this amazing adventure together! 🌈✨
- Département
- Legal
- Role
- Legal Manager (H/F/X)
- Locations
- Paris
- Remote status
- Hybrid
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Workplace & Culture
At Yousign, we want to advocate for the well-being of our employees, so that the collaborative adventure we just
talked about 😉 👆 is as fulfilling as possible.
That’s why we offer:
- flex office. Phenomenal offices in Paris, at the Place de la Concorde, and on the marina of Caen, the historical
headquarters of the company. ⛵Full-remote is possible for a large part of the teams,
- asynchronous work. We communicate both synchronously and asynchronously with tools that make this
distance more pleasant: Slack, Notion, Discord, Google Workplace, etc.
- unifying team building. We all meet together to exchange formally but also for fun!
- sports. Many yousigners like to be energized by doing sports activities or even competitions together or
individually,
- ecology. We advocate the "0 paper" policy, the use of compost, public transportation...and many other things!
We also have a partnership with Ecotree: for every 10 clients we plant a tree to reduce our carbon footprint.
Today, this represents more than 1,200 trees.
About Yousign
At Yousign, we are reinventing the electronic signature experience with a fast, legal, secure and 100% European SaaS solution. 🖊⚡
Founded in 2013 by Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset in Caen, our scale-up is now present in France 🇫🇷, Italy 🇮🇹 and Germany 🇩🇪!
Our goal? To become the European leader in electronic signatures by enabling freelancers and SMBs, to simplify
their workflows. 🤸
🚀 In order to achieve this…
- 2019: we integrated into the eFounders, one of the best SaaS start-up studios in Europe,
- 2021: we raised 30 million euros from the eFounders and Lead Edge Capital, famous for having invested in
BlaBlaCar, Asana, Zoom, Spotify and Uber.
We offer two e-signature solutions:
- a web app, ready to use and accessible from anywhere,
- an API (Application Program Interface), which can be easily integrated into business softwares
At this time, Yousign is :
- more than 200 yousigners in our offices in Paris and Caen, or in full-remote (+40% are working remotely) 👦 💻
- more than 18,000 customers who trust us on a daily basis 🤝
- over 4 million signatures every month 🔝
- An impressive annual growth rate, which makes us the most successful e-signature scale-up in Europe
Gender Equality Index 96/100
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