Lead Counsel - Data Licensing & Privacy

🔍 Who we're looking for

* 7 to 10 years of experience, in a top-tier firm, in-house, or both, with real ownership of data matters.
* Qualified lawyer, jurisdiction flexible: US bar, French avocat, or equivalent. We care about judgment, not about which bar you sit at.
* Deep expertise in data protection and data licensing law. Not privacy-adjacent, not privacy as one file among twenty. This is the core of the role.
* Dual US and EU coverage, with US law weighted the most. You are credible on the American side and solid on GDPR and the European framework.
* You have negotiated data agreements yourself, redlined them, sat across the table, and closed them. You are not a reviewer of other people's drafts.
* Pragmatic in a fast-moving company. You give an answer, not a memo with five options. You know the difference between a real risk and a theoretical one, and you say which is which.
* Comfortable being the only lawyer in the room, and comfortable saying no to founders when it matters.
* Fully fluent in English and French, both mandatory. English is our working language with the labs and across the team, French is the language of our Paris team and of part of our partner and contractual work.
The extras that make the difference
* Experience at an AI company, a data provider, or a data-intensive business where data was the product.
* You have taken a company through SOC 2 or ISO 27001 before.
* Genuine interest in how AI models are trained and why the data we produce matters.
* Experience of anonymization or de-identification as a legal and technical question, not just a policy line.
* A third language, useful as we open more European markets.

🎁 Why join us

* The legal function is yours to build. No existing framework to inherit, no precedent to defend. You decide how this company handles data.
* Legal is not a support function here. The contracts you write are the product, and your answers are what close deals.
* A genuinely new problem. How to buy, anonymize and license real company data for AI training is being figured out right now, in the open, by a handful of people. You would be one of them.
* Entrepreneurial adventure: founding impact, live the early days of an ambitious company at the front line of the AI revolution.
* Backed by Y Combinator, join just as we accelerate.
* Offices in central Paris.
* Perks: Alan health insurance (mutuelle), 50% Navigo covered.