Head of Legal

Job description

About us 👇🏼 lemlist is the outbound platform for sales teams: find leads, run multichannel campaigns (email, LinkedIn, calls), personalize with AI and book meetings. lempire also builds lemwarm (deliverability), Claap (AI call intelligence), Taplio and Tweet Hunter. We're at +$60M ARR, growing ~50% year over year, profitable and 100% bootstrapped, with 180 people. We’re now moving upmarket, signing larger deals, expanding our partnerships, working with data providers, and integrating acquisitions like Claap. Until now, all our legal work has been handled by external law firms. We’re hiring our first Head of Legal to build and scale the function from scratch. Mission Build lemlist’s legal function from scratch and help us move faster, close bigger deals, and scale without unnecessary risk You’ll own legal across lempire, working directly with the COO, CEO, and business teams. Your job: help us close deals faster, protect what matters, and make smart business decisions. Commercial contracts will take ~50% of your time. The rest covers corporate, employment, privacy, M&A, and everything else a scaling SaaS group needs. You won’t be expected to know everything. You’ll handle what you can, bring in specialists when needed. What you will own Commercial contracts (~50%) Negotiate enterprise SaaS contracts, partnerships, and key supplier agreements Help Sales unblock deals and navigate complex negotiations Build templates and playbooks to make standard contracts self-serve Corporate & M&A (~20%) Own corporate governance, board/shareholder decisions, BSPCE, and our US entity Lead Claap’s legal integration and support future acquisitions with external counsel Employment (~20%) Partner with HR on contracts, terminations, disputes, CSE, and profit-sharing agreements Privacy & other legal matters (~10%) Oversee GDPR, data privacy, and data provider agreements with external specialists (DPO) Handle T&Cs, NDAs, leases, and other legal matters Build the legal function Become the go-to person for all legal matters Decide what to bring in-house vs. outsource and manage external counsel Build simple, AI-first processes that scale without unnecessary bureaucracy How you’ll work Business first: You give clear recommendations, not just a list of risks Full ownership: You take responsibility, even outside your core expertise Bias for action: You move fast, build from scratch an…