Legal Counsel

At Hornetsecurity , we protect the communications of businesses and individuals against the most advanced cyberattacks.

We are a community of 900 employees across 10 countries. We help over 75,000 clients worldwide—including enterprises, SMEs, NGOs, institutions, and hospitals—maintain their operations, thrive, and achieve their mission through AI-based technologies.

In France we are looking for a motivated Legal Counsel.

Your Job

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of complex deals on HSE and customer templates (distribution & license agreements mostly), often adapting them to applicable local laws, in line with HSE’s business strategy, policies, and practices,
• Review, draft and negotiate Data Processing agreements and support the business on privacy issues depending on the local laws (GDPR, APPI, CCPA, PDPL,…),
• Embed with product and engineering teams to understand HSE’s products and provide business‑oriented solutions to the teams so as to comply with the new regulations (AI Act, NIS 2, DORA, Cyberesilience Act,…),
• Build legal policies and processes, and provide training and knowledge sharing to colleagues,
• Collaborate and provide legal & ethics guidance as well as related risk management advice to all HSE teams worldwide,
• Monitor and self‑study on case law, legislation and other legal guidance relevant to HSE,
• Working closely with the rest of the legal department and external counsels & agents to support the Company’s general corporate legal activities, including corporate formalities' management, insurances monitoring, and protection of HSE’s intellectual property assets.

Your Profile

• At least 6 years of commercial and corporate law experience obtained at a top law firm or in a multinational legal department,
• A background in the Tech industry and an extensive knowledge of technology contract matters including intellectual property, software licensing, managed services, cloud agreements, SaaS agreements, cloud, data protection and security and possibly also artificial intelligence is essential,
• Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills in English is essential, fluency in other languages will be considered a plus.
• Willingness to travel as required by the business.
• Seasoned judgment to advise on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters, particularly under the U.S., French, German & Spanish law,
• High degree of independence and initiative,
• Ability to prioritize in a fast‑moving environment.
• Take advantage of a pivotal moment in our growth, with plenty of opportunities to seize.
• Grow in a fast‑paced learning environment within a close‑knit team.
• Be part of an international company where a cosmopolitan and multicultural mindset is ever‑present.
• Benefit from 100% reimbursement of public transport costs.
• Receive meal vouchers worth €10 each.
• Enjoy subsidies and gift cards from the Works Council amounting to €170/year