📌 The Role : Senior Legal Counsel

Jus Mundi is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our Global Legal Data team. In this role, you will report directly to the VP of Global Legal Data and be THE key player in driving Jus Mundi’s governance, legal strategy, and mission. You will be based in Paris but will also have the opportunity to travel to our offices in New York, London, and Singapore.

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will have a dual focus: managing all legal aspects of the company (corporate, commercial, IP/IT, data protection, etc.) and spearheading our mission and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. You will be instrumental in shaping the legal direction of Jus Mundi, both from an internal governance perspective and in our interactions with the external legal community. This includes overseeing our policies on the collection, processing, and anonymization of global legal data.

Your role will also involve being a key representative of Jus Mundi in the global legal community, especially among General Counsel of leading multinational companies who are our clients or prospects.

Possibility to evolve as a General Counsel in the future.

📌 What You’ll Be Doing

As the company’ Senior Legal Counsel, you will:

• Be involved in the definition and execution of the company’s governance.

• Lead any legal topic relating to contracts, corporate, IP/IT, data protection and other relevant legal matters.

• Plan and implement our IP (trademark, copyright, and sui generis database rights) and data protection strategy.

• Draft and update contract templates (General & specific T&C, IT services agreements, partnerships, NDA, …) and improve our contracting processes and policies.

• Collaborate with the team to evolve the legal function by identifying opportunities to centralize knowledge and create processes with a technology-first, enablement-first approach.

• Monitor and provide guidance on the latest regulatory & legal developments to ensure the company’s compliance with the issues that may impact us, including finance, governance, data protection, AI governance etc.

• Manage and follow up relationships with external counsel.

• Be responsible for building the legal team as the company grows.

• Lead Jus Mundi’s mission and CSR activities, promoting our values and social responsibility initiatives across the company and the broader legal community.

• Publicly represents and speak on behalf of the company as its General Counsel.

• Establish close relationships with other leading General Counsel worldwide.

You wish to join a multicultural, fast-paced team where collaboration is key.

📌 Experience

• 6+ years of experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, in an international environment. Previous experience in the early days of a fast-growing tech company is a must.

• Deep knowledge of and experience with corporate and commercial law, AI, IP/IT law and data protection & CSR in French and US law.

📌 Skills

• Hands-on: you are proactive, take decisions and act accordingly.

• Excellent drafting, analytic and negotiating skills.

• Detailed-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills.

• High technical aptitude: you are able to understand Jus Mundi’s technological environment and are expected to perform the legal function using state-of-the-art legal tech.

• Business-minded: you assess the risks and give practical and actionable advice and solutions.

• Strategic thinking: you see far ahead to put in place the legal protections that will allow Jus Mundi to grow in peace.

• Trustworthy: The critical nature of your role requires unfailing integrity.

• Networking and thought leadership: your voice resonates in the world of in-house counsel to position Jus Mundi as a respected and influential player.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you are a team player!

📌 Languages

• Fluent in English and French (both written and spoken). Knowledge of other languages is a plus.

📌 Education

• Master or higher degree in law.

• Bar qualification is a plus.

🌟 Why join us?

😍 Working for a fast-growing global legal tech offering a disruptive product that is revolutionizing the way lawyers around the world interconnect and conduct legal research;

🏖 5 weeks of vacation

🩺 A great complementary private health insurance (paid 100% for the employee and his children by the company)

🌍 Travel (work abroad) policy: 8 weeks per year, you can live and work from where you want across the globe.

🍼 Paid parental leave (under specific conditions).

🤓 Great learning curve.

💙 And we are committed to building a warm, inclusive, and diverse environment.

📌 Interview process:

1. Screening call with AFA agency, Claire (30mins)

2. Video call interview with our VP of Global Legal Data, Alexandre (1h)

3. Interview with our counsel, Angelynn (1h)

4. Business case with our CEO, Jean-Rémi, our CFO, Valentin and Alexandre (1h20)

5. Meet the executives team in Paris (1h)

At least 2 interview should be done in person.