GitGuardian’s Legal team drives strategic growth while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk management. Through close collaboration with Go-to-Market, R&D, and Finance teams, we navigate complex legal challenges, streamline processes, and facilitate business success.

In recent years, our team has achieved significant milestones: modernizing contract management processes, enhancing compliance frameworks, and fostering strategic partnerships. We have been instrumental in enabling international expansion by establishing robust legal foundations across multiple jurisdictions.

We are looking for an ambitious Legal Operations Intern who combines strong attention to detail with excellent communication skills and a pragmatic, business-oriented approach. In this role, you will work directly under the mentorship of our Legal Counsel, Anne-Sophie, while collaborating closely with Yohann, our Finance Director.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Legal and contractual support

• Draft, review, and manage contracts and agreements (e.g., NDAs, supplier agreements, customer contracts). This includes working across teams to support negotiations, empower customer and supplier facing teams and ensure contracts are aligned with business objectives.

• Maintain and optimize GitGuardian’s contract management database.

Regulatory and compliance support

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

Corporate governance

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

Operational support & continuous improvement

• Work closely with various teams (GTM, R&D, Finance, HR) to provide legal advice and support.

• Actively participate in the development and improvement of legal processes and workflows, including but not limited to standardisation of templates, updating of internal policies and procedures, improvement of automation.

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

Here’s what we consider essential for success in this role:

• You must be able to deliver an internship agreement (“convention de stage”) for the whole duration of your internship;

• A Master 2 in law (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 (or fluent) level in English and French;

• Organizational skills: ability to work on various topics and attention to detail. You will learn from the team to slowly gain autonomy on your daily tasks;

• Soft skills: 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.

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

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.