Head of Legal, Welcome to the Jungle
2-4 days a week in office (Rue du Mail, Paris)
Media & recruitment platform
Job no longer available
Media & recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-4 days a week in office (Rue du Mail, Paris)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give work a sustainable place in our lives.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 10 years of experience as a lawyer or legal counsel, with significant experience in a company, ideally in a high-growth environment
- You have a generalist expertise, capable of handling a variety of matters ranging from commercial to privacy to corporate
- You have demonstrated management skills and are comfortable leading and inspiring a team
- You possess excellent interpersonal skills and can position yourself as a true business partner to various departments
- Pragmatic and hands-on, you know how to take charge of complex and urgent cases
- You can work independently while being an active and collaborative team player
What the job involves
- As the Head of Legal at Welcome to the Jungle, you will have the opportunity to build and lead our legal department, working closely with teams across the company to ensure compliance and support business initiatives
- Develop and lead Welcome to the Jungle’s legal strategy, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations
- Manage commercial, privacy, and corporate (M&A, BSPCE, etc.) matters with a pragmatic and business-oriented approach
- Provide legal and strategic advice to executive teams and various departments within the company
- Negotiate and draft various commercial contracts, partnerships, and confidentiality agreements
- Oversee daily legal operations and coordinate actions with external advisors when necessary
- Ensure constant legal monitoring and train teams on best practices and new regulations
- A unique opportunity to build and lead the legal function in a fast-growing company
- Join a passionate and dynamic team where innovation and collaboration are at the heart of our culture
- Participate in transforming the job market and promoting better working conditions for all
Our take
Welcome to the Jungle (WTTJ) is a tech start-up and media company that explores the world of work. Their mission is to give work a more sustainable place in our lives.
Beyond a typical recruitment site, it offers a platform to help companies attract, hire, and engage top talent. They also produce regular educational media content for recruiters and employees alike.
The company has received significant funding and expanded from France into Czech Republic. Through the recent acquisition of this platform Otta, WTTJ plans to strengthen its international expansion in the UK, USA and across Europe. It plans to do this by providing a more comprehensive experience for both companies and candidates
Today, over 5,500 companies across various industries showcase their workplace culture on WTTJ through exclusive content, team photos, interviews, and key statistics
Nearly 2.5 million unique visitors actively explore companies, apply for jobs, and engage with our original media and content each month. Their impact extends beyond the platform, resonating with a community of 1.7 million followers across various social media platforms.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"When I joined Welcome, there were 40 of us, now there are 10 times as many, and yet I still feel the same energy in people, the same ability to..."
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$54m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$22.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $86.8m
Company benefits
- 4 day working week and flexible hours to help establish a long-term relationship with work and to thrive in the workplace. We strive to achieve a more harmonious balance between work and personal life.
- Professional Development: Development plans, paid industry certifications, time allotted for learning, job training & conferences, online courses, mentor program and a leadership training program
- Transport and mobility: Bicycle storage, public transportation covered and sustainable mobility
- Financial: Pension plan, cooptation bonus and a stock option plan, lunch vouchers
- Vacation and time off: Sabbatical leave and Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Health and wellness: Mental health benefits, private health insurance, life insurance, paid sick days
- Parental: Birth allocation, return-to-work program post parental leave, sick child leave, pregnancy loss leave, adoption assistance program, birth paternity leave and birth maternity leave
Company values
- You're Welcome: We come as our true selves and pull together to achieve our common goals. We're united by purpose
- Never Stop Exploring: We're powered by curiosity. We seek ideas and inspiration in unexpected places
- Place Your Bets We believe in taking chances. We'll always choose a bold decision with great potential rewards over playing it safe
- Try Again: We're tenacious. We believe that missing the mark is an inherent part of growing – every experiment brings us a step closer to success
- Good Enough is Not Enough: We believe that excellence brings greatness. We go the extra mile because we want to leave a lasting mark
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Articles
Leadership
Jérémy Clédat
(CEO)Previously acted as a Contributor to Les Echos, a French leading economic newspaper. Was a Partner for Verso Productions, an Associate for Creadev Investissement and AUDACIA, and has experience in Equity Capital Markets as well as in Mergers and Acquisitions.
People progressing
After 2,5 years as Head of the Talent Acquisition team in France, Marine had the opportunity to take the job of Head of People UK in June 2024, as part of our program "Jungle Career Experience".
After almost 5 years in the company as Sales Team manager, Seb took on the role of Agencies & Partnerships Lead in October 2023, after a successful mobility process.
Camille started off as Office Manager in 2020 and after 2 years moved to the position of Employee Experience Specialist, being responsible of our internal programs.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Welcome to the Jungle
Noëlla Gavier (Chief People Officer)
- At Welcome to the Jungle, we are striving to give work a more sustainable place in our lives. It is also our belief that work must be designed to better respect work-life balance, to help us find more fulfilment in our jobs.
- As we embark on our journey to become a global brand, it is important that we grow a diverse workforce to ensure our product is the most accessible and inclusive it can be, in order to give everybody the opportunity to experience our goal of a better work life balance.
- For now, we have a 60% female workforce across three different countries and have set up a small number of ERGs including a Jungle Pride committee, who host regular events, and a Disability Circle, who help to improve our product from an accessibility standpoint. This is just the start, however, as we become a more global brand we want to continue to think smart about how we can become even more inclusive.
- Lastly, whilst our benefits are reflective of our mission, we also recognise how they inspire more inclusion in our workplace. For example, we operate a 4-day work week which, beyond offering more work-life balance, can support people with caring duties and reduce stress & workplace burnout.
- As well as our 4-day work week, we have enhanced parental leave at Welcome to the Jungle, and believe firmly in treating parents equally. This means we give parents the same career opportunities, access to promotions and professional development and regular pay reviews whilst on leave. We also see all parents equally, meaning our parental leave is the same across either caregiver.
- It is our hope to give work a more sustainable place in our lives, so that people can really be themselves outside of work. For the time we do spend at work together, it is our mission to ensure everybody feels a sense of belonging.
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