About GitGuardian

GitGuardian is a global post-Series B cybersecurity scale-up. The company is based in Paris, with 140 team members between France and the USA.

Among our early investors who saw our market value proposition, are the co-founder of GitHub, Scott Chacon, along with Solomon Hykes, Docker's co-founder. American and European top-tier VC firms have also invested in GitGuardian.

GitGuardian leads the way in Non-Human Identity security, offering end-to-end solutions from secrets detection in code, productivity tools and environments to strong remediation, observability and proactive prevention of leaks. 

Our solutions are already used by more than 600K developers worldwide!

About your team and your mission

GitGuardian's legal team plays a strategic role in supporting the company’s growth while ensuring compliance and mitigating risk. We work cross-functionally with go-to-market, R&D, and finance teams to overcome complex legal challenges, optimise processes, and enable business success.

In recent years, we have successfully streamlined our contract management processes, strengthened compliance frameworks, and supported key strategic partnerships. We have also played a key role in scaling our international operations by ensuring the legal readiness for expansion.

We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Legal Operations Intern with excellent communication skills and a pragmatic, business-oriented mindset. You will report directly to our Legal Counsel, Anne-Sophie, and work closely with Yohann, our Finance Director.

Your main tasks will be:

1. Legal and contractual support

• Drafting, reviewing, and managing contracts and agreements (e.g., NDAs, supplier agreements, customer contracts). This will include working across teams to support negotiations, empower customer and supplier facing teams and ensure contracts are aligned with business objectives.
• Contributing to the maintenance and organization of GitGuardian’s contract management database.

2. Regulatory and compliance assistance

• Assisting with regulatory monitoring and filling, ensuring compliance with local and international standards, such as AI governance, GDPR, data protection regulations.

3. Corporate governance

• Supporting teams on corporate issues, ensuring compliance with French and US governance requirements.

4. Operational support & continuous improvement

• Working closely with various teams (GTM, R&D, Finance, HR) to provide legal guidance and support.
• Participating in the development and improvement of legal processes and workflows -including but not limited to standardization of templates, updating of internal policies and procedures, improvement of automation.

About you

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Here are the skills we consider to be essential for the internship:

• Administrative mandatory requirement: you must be able to deliver an *internship agreement* (“convention de stage”) for the whole duration of your internship.
• Master 2 in law at a minimum (business law preferred), LL.M. from a US-accredited university welcomed;
• At least 1 year of experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department on commercial matters;
• Bilingual in English and French -native level or fluent;
• Ability to work on various topics and attention to detail. You will learn from the team to slowly gain autonomy on your daily tasks;
• Creativity, curiosity, and humility are key to the role. You have an enthusiastic personality, you are willing to learn and wish to evolve in a challenging environment.

Looking forward to here from you!

The interview process

1. Screening call with a team member (20min)

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

2. Interview with your future manager (45min)

To know more about yourself and your achievements, present to you the team, to evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

3. Interview with a Senior Manager

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

Benefits

• 🍜 Lunch voucher (Swile)
• 🎡 Team building: monthly activities for the whole company + dedicated budget that you can spend as you want with teammates! (last examples: karaoke, karting, restaurant, ...)
• 🤝 Referral bonus of 4000€ for any new Guardian we might hire thanks to you

And also...

• 🏡 Hybrid remote policy: at least 3 days/week at the office
• 👫 Trust & autonomy on your scope with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development
• 👊 Working on a meaningful product; we already helped more than 600k developers across the globe
• 🚀 Potential opportunities for career development in the long term
• Learn more about our culture in our Starter Guide.

More about GitGuardian!

Products

• Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.
• Learn how GitGuardian works in this video!
• Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 security app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥

Clients

• GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.
• More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.
• Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

• The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!
• The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.
• Read former interns' testimonies!
• We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices, some Guardians gets to bring their dogs from time to time.

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender identity on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.