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Legal counsel

Maki· Operations
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Hybrid (Paris)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

As Legal Counsel, you’ll help shape and build Maki’s legal function across commercial contracts, legal operations, privacy, product, regulatory matters, and company strategy in a hybrid Paris-based role.

Responsibilities

  • Review, draft, and negotiate customer agreements, including master services agreements (MSAs), data processing agreements (DPAs), security and privacy provisions, and related commercial documentation.
  • Represent Maki in negotiations with customer legal and procurement teams, using sound commercial judgment to determine which requirements to accept, mitigate, or challenge.
  • Help the commercial team understand the practical implications of contractual commitments before they are made.
  • Develop negotiation positions, fallback clauses, and contracting standards that make enterprise contracting more efficient while managing risk.
  • Coordinate with Sales, Leadership, Security, Product, and Engineering to ensure commitments are clear and achievable.
  • Develop and maintain standard agreements, terms and conditions, privacy policies, and other core legal documentation.
  • Create processes for contract review, approvals, renewals, and legal requests, with clear ownership and decision-making responsibilities.
  • Build templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and internal guidance to help teams handle common legal questions consistently.
  • Select and implement legal tools and workflows as the volume and complexity of legal work grow.
  • Make legal knowledge and contractual obligations accessible to the teams responsible for acting on them.
  • Monitor developments in AI, privacy, employment, data protection, and other regulations affecting Maki and its customers.
  • Translate regulatory and contractual obligations into practical product and operational requirements.
  • Work with Product and Engineering to identify necessary features, controls, workflows, and technical capabilities.
  • Advise the commercial team on how legal requirements affect product positioning, sales, and deployment.
  • Help leadership assess emerging legal risks and make informed strategic and operational decisions.
  • Develop practical policies and processes that meet legal obligations without unnecessarily slowing teams or customers.

Qualifications

  • Qualification as a legal counsel in a relevant jurisdiction.
  • Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements.
  • Strong experience in technology, SaaS, data, privacy, or related commercial legal matters.
  • A practical understanding of GDPR, data protection, and the regulatory environment surrounding technology and AI.
  • Sound judgment in distinguishing material legal and commercial risks from theoretical concerns.
  • The ability to explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers, both in writing and in conversation.
  • A constructive, commercially minded approach to negotiations with sophisticated customer legal teams.
  • The ability to work independently and build structure where little currently exists.

Skills

Required:Commercial contract negotiationRegulatory and privacy compliancePolicy and process development
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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