Head of Legal (Fintech/SaaS) Remote EU / France

Location: France or EU (Remote-first, office optional)

Employment Type: Full-time

Tasks

🌟 About the Role

Join a stellar team of leaders and experts in fintech, blockchain, cryptography, infrastructure, and security to build the next generation of core banking systems.

We are hiring a Head of Legal to own and drive every legal matter across the company. You will have a broad mandate: commercial contracts, IP and patents, litigation, HR and employment law, and regulatory affairs across every market in which we operate. As the legal leader of the company, you will build the frameworks, playbooks, and processes that let a fast-growing, global team scale without losing speed or rigor.

A core part of this role is Regulatory Affairs. Our company operates at the intersection of fintech and digital asset infrastructure, in a landscape that shifts constantly across the EU, US, APAC, and beyond. We expect you to dig into every applicable regulation, understand it deeply, and translate it into clear product requirements, partnering directly with our CPO and product team to turn compliance obligations into product features and competitive advantages. You will be the bridge between regulators and our product roadmap.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution. You will report to our CEO and work closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, People, Finance, and the executive team to support our international growth.

📋 Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Legal Leadership: Act as the legal force multiplier for the leadership team—surfacing risks, proposing solutions, and shipping them.
• Commercial Contracts: Draft, review, and negotiate complex B2B commercial contracts (SaaS agreements, NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, partnership deals, vendor contracts).
• Business Growth Support: Work closely with sales and product teams to support deal flow and revenue growth.
• Vendor Onboarding: Oversee the legal aspects of vendor onboarding, including KYB and other due diligence checks.
• IP Strategy: Build and execute our IP strategy, including trademark, copyright, and patent portfolios in collaboration with external IP counsel.
• Litigation & Disputes: Manage any disputes, claims, or litigation, leading pre-litigation strategy, settlement discussions, and risk mitigation.
• Employment & HR: Advise the People team on employment contracts, policies, and labor law across the jurisdictions in which we hire; support sensitive HR matters, investigations, and global mobility arrangements.
• Global Regulatory Compliance: Monitor, analyze, and operationalize regulations relevant to our business globally (MiCA, DORA, GDPR, AML/CFT, US state and federal frameworks, UK FCA, MAS, VARA, and emerging crypto/fintech regimes worldwide).
• Product Partnership: Partner directly with the CPO and product team to translate regulatory requirements into clear product specifications and features.
• Regulatory & Stakeholder Engagement: Lead engagement with regulators, industry bodies, and policy stakeholders, maintaining a living regulatory map of the markets we serve.
• Scalable Operations: Develop and maintain playbooks, templates, and scalable legal processes as we scale.
• External Counsel Management: Coordinate external counsel relationships across jurisdictions, optimizing for performance, expertise, and cost.

Requirements

Experience:10+ years of legal experience, with meaningful exposure across commercial contracts, IP, regulatory, and employment matters. Significant in-house experience in fast-growing tech companies is strongly preferred.

Bar Admission: Admitted to practice law in France (Required). Multi-jurisdictional expertise is strongly preferred.

Fintech & Regulatory Expertise: Deep, hands-on expertise with regulatory affairs in fintech, crypto, payments, or financial services, with a clear appetite for regulatory deep dives.

Contract Negotiations: Demonstrated track record drafting and negotiating complex B2B and SaaS agreements.

Legal Domain Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of IP/patent strategy, litigation management, and employment law in France and at least one other major global hiring jurisdiction.

Product Mindset: Proven ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable product and business inputs.

Industry Familiarity: Deep familiarity with SaaS, fintech, and blockchain business models.

Mindset & Adaptability: Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to self-start, champion new ideas, and execute end-to-end. Experience operating in a remote-first environment across multiple time zones, balancing speed, risk, and business priorities pragmatically.

Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the gravitas to engage regulators and operate at the executive level.

Languages: Fluent in English and French; additional languages are a plus.

Benefits

Compensation: €80,000 – €140,000 / year

Equity: 100 – 300 Stock Options (4-year vesting)

Benefits: Healthcare, pension plan, travel expenses, MacBook Pro + essential workspace setup

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