Your mission as part of the Legal team

With a strong legal background, you will build the Legal, Compliance and Risks team (currently a team of 2), to ensure Luko strikes the best risk-reward balance.

You will be the legal expert within Luko, always providing solid analysis of the risks & upsides. As a business partner and a key touchpoint for the regulator, you will support all teams in their development when it comes to legal and compliance matters.

-Define and lead the corporate legal strategy, raise awareness among management and propose actions to secure the business’ development
-Build and manage the compliance and risk functions, to ensure that Luko’s activities are handled safely and risk awareness is spread amongst Lukooms
-Contribute to audits’ management and implementation of compliance programs
-Lead contract management at Luko: support all major contract negotiations, provide guidelines for general contract matters to all Luko staff, centralise documentation and ensure regular reviews, trigger reviews and renegotiations when possible, etc
-Own and centralise counsels’ solicitations
-Lead procedure for any conflictual relationship (client, provider, partner, competitor), including complaints management
-Identify Legal/ market opportunity Luko can seize and be a true business enabler

Who are you?

Must have

• Substantial corporate legal expertise, including a good understanding of VC functioning
• 5+ years of experience in a regulated industry or law firm
• Strong business focus, with experience leading a similar function preferably in a growth / scaling organisation
• A driven and resourceful mindset with an ability to lead and implement simple and clear solutions.
• Compliance knowledge in key matters such as GDPR, DDA, Solvency II
• Knowledge of regulator expectations and confident handling such processes
• Comfortable under pressure, with a good risk appetite and pragmatic approach
• Ability to develop, foster and maintain effective working relationships with many different groups of people within Luko as well as with external partners

Language: English & French mandatory, another language would be appreciated

Nice to have

• Experience in or related to the Tech/ Startup/ Scaleup scene
• Understanding of the Insurtech environment

What we offer

• Be part of the fastest growing insurtech in Europe
• Be part of the #1 French scale-up to work for in terms of well-being
• Benefit from a great equity plan
• Nice perks (meal vouchers, unlimited days off, etc.)
• Evolve in a stimulating and challenging environment
• Share and learn with a passionate and diverse team
• Friendly team and offices in Paris and Madrid
• Remote friendly (see our No Border Policy)

You’ve read all the way, you may as well apply!

Our company-wide communication language is English (written & spoken).
We would therefore appreciate it if you could send us your application’s content (CV, cover letter, portfolio…) in english. But if you can’t, a french-speaking Talent Acquisition Manager will review your application.

If you have any questions take a look at our Luko open handbook to find out more about who we are, what we do and how we work

• Screening call with Serena Pettitt (Recruiter)
• Hiring Manager Interview with Margaux Gregoir (VP of Finance)
• Case study & review
• Behavioural Interview with Stella Walter (VP of People)
• Cultural Interview with Raphael Vullierme (Cofounder)