Who are we?

Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 150 distribution partners. We provide most of our insurance products through API, and hosts white label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform.

With a footprint spanning 32 countries and revenue of more than €900 million in 2023, mostly generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance.

Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to “enabling transparent and impactful insurance".

⌖ The Mission

Join our vibrant and dynamic team at Wakam as a Legal Specialist, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the business during the partner lifecycle phase and remediation efforts. You'll be advising partners on necessary actions, drafting correspondence, and contract amendments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, draft, review, and validate contracts in both French and English, including letters of intent, framework agreements, partnership agreements, and management delegation agreements.
• Contribute to legal compliance and continuous improvement by regularly updating standard contracts, maintaining the contract management tool, and implementing contract amendments in response to legal changes or remediation actions with existing partners.
• Assess the feasibility of partnerships in light of legal context and insurance regulations.
• Provide legal validation for various contracts, including service agreements, general terms and conditions, specific terms, and policies.
• Prepare legal notes on specific legal issues related to French and European regulations, guarantee schemes, distribution schemes, etc.
• Conduct legal and regulatory monitoring to analyze and anticipate legal developments that may affect the products and insurance contracts we design.
• Provide legal responses to internal team inquiries, including product managers, business developers, partnership project managers, and auditors.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (Bac +5) in Insurance Law, Business Law, or a similar field.
• Ideally, 1-2 years of experience in Insurance Law, including internships or apprenticeships.
• Proficiency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in IT tools.
• Ability to adapt to an agile and dynamic work environment.
• Balance business objectives with legal security by proactively seeking solutions in partner negotiations.
• Versatility and comfort with multitasking, as well as openness to frequent changes.
• Proactive and attentive to the needs of business partners.

Why Join Wakam:

• Fun, cool, and dynamic company culture.
• Remote work opportunities.
• Supportive and collaborative team, providing extensive learning and exposure to various subjects.

Interview Process

1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Expert
2. Manager interview with Head of Legal France
3. Chief fit interview with Chief Legal Officer
4. HR culture fit interview with Head of Talent

To help you get a complete picture of our hiring process and Wakam's work culture, please visit our dedicated page : Interviews at Wakam.

=> Welcome @Wakam 🙌

Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!

You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!

More about us

Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty for autonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then the Wakam adventure might be made for you!

Discover on our website who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!

Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:

1. Think big
2. Biased for action
3. Curious and eager to learn
4. Can say no and find solutions
5. Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
6. And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !

• Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds their role and knows their objectives.
• With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.
• Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day @Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
• Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵) with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program.
• Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself 😉)

At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.