Senior Legal Counsel, Swapcard
Corporate & Employment
AI-powered virtual & hybrid event platform
Be an early applicant
AI-powered virtual & hybrid event platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower human connections and enhance the way people network.
Role
Who you are
- French legal education mandatory
- Master 2 in Business law - double major in business school/political science/LLM is a plus
- Admitted to practice law in France (CAPA)
- 3 to 5 years of experience (post graduation) in corporate law
- An experience in employment law is not mandatory but is a plus
- Bonus - You are familiar with start up clients
- Excellent communication and drafting skills
- English and French full written/oral proficiency
- Pro-active, autonomous, solution driven
- Rigorous and detail oriented
- Open minded, not reluctant to change process or to try new things
What the job involves
- Are you passionate, ambitious and what your friends usually called “street smart”? Do you want to make the most of every opportunity, believe every steps of your career should be interesting and fulfilling? If you replied yes to the above questions, please apply
- Directly reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, your main tasks will be focused around Corporate law and will also include some responsibilities in Employment law as follows:
- Handle the Company corporate transactions including funding, M&A, investment, and other strategic operations in a substantive fashion (e.g., structuring corporate documentation, due diligence participation, negotiation of investment agreements, post-closing formalities)
- Handle corporate secretary for the French entity and its 8 worldwide subsidiaries and ensure compliance with local corporate law
- Manage our ESOP plans distributed to our collaborators worldwide and associated formalities
- Assist in developing and executing legal strategy regarding group structuration and setting up new entities around the world
- Provide corporate advices to the different stakeholders of the company
- Assist the People Team in secure the employment operations of Swapcard France and its subsidiaries
- Develop template employment agreements, company policies and documentation for each entity in collaboration with the People and Culture team
- Assist during administrative inspection and employee’s termination
- Provide employment law advice and opinion to the different stakeholders of the company
Application process
- Our thorough interview process aims to identify exceptional talent to advance our mission while offering you a chance to explore your career potential at Swapcard
- Screening Interview with a recruiter from our people team
- A remote exercise to demonstrate and assess your skills
- Manager review with your future reporting manager
- Leadership review with one of our department leaders
- Reference check conducted by our people team
- Offer
Our take
Events platform Swapcard is a major player in the events software industry. Impressively adapting to the rise of virtual events, it supplies an end-to-end solution that includes registration, engagement, and networking tools, as well as some novel details like an AI-powered guest matchmaking service.
Acquisitions of MapsPeople and Avolio have seen Swapcard deepen its suite of tools over the years. This is reflective of its approach in positioning itself as a single tech provider capable of handling all aspects of digital, hybrid, and in-person events formats.
Customers like SXSW, Expo Dubai 2020, and Informa are among the high-profile enterprise clients pursuing Swapcard’s services. In a market expected to grow fairly rapidly over the next few years, these players provide a valuable vote of confidence which suggests a bright future for the company.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2018
$4.7m
EARLY VC
Apr 2015
$0.6m
ANGEL
Total funding: $5.3m
Company benefits
- 100% health insurance for all employees
- Coworking budget
- 33 Days PTO
- Learning & development resources
- Work from almost anywhere
- Transport (Country-specific benefits)
- Work-from-home budget
- International team with more than 40 nationalities (and counting)
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Leadership
Baptiste Boulard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a lawyer at VINCI Concessions and Allen & Overy. Current Member of the Digital Innovation Working Group at UFI.
Damien Courbon
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an Internal Consultant with Nutricia Medical Nutrition, and went on to work as a Financial Auditor with Deloitte.
Godefroy des Francs
(Co-Founder & CPO)A Business Management and Finance graduate, who went on to hold various project and portfolio management positions, including at BNP Paribas.
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