International Legal Counsel

Summary

Join Hugging Face as our Legal Counsel and assist with a wide variety of tasks, including contract review, labor law matters, legal watch on AI-related topics, and corporate matters. You will handle onboarding/offboarding, manage relationships with external service providers globally, and ensure compliance with various legal frameworks. The ideal candidate possesses a legal background, 3+ years of experience as Legal Counsel in a startup, and strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. Fluency in French and English is mandatory. Hugging Face offers a supportive and inclusive work environment with flexible working hours, remote options, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Ideally coming from a legal educational background, you have 3+ years of experience as a Legal Counsel in a startup-like company
• You’ll enjoy working with us if you think strategically but have the capacity to be nimble, pragmatic, and creative in solving problems
• You will be required to be autonomous, independent, and communicative, as these are key to succeeding in a decentralized organization like ours
• You also have great organizational and administrative writing skills
• Fluency in both French and English is mandatory for this position

Responsibilities

• Contract review of all types of contracts and legal operations
• Labor law matters and HR operations : Onboarding/Offboarding, relation with our external service providers (lawyers, visa providers, accountants, etc.) around the world (North America/LATAM, EMEA, APAC)
• Legal watch on various legal topics applied to AI: IP, privacy
• Corporate matters

Preferred Qualifications

Solid startup or entrepreneurial experience is also preferred

Benefits

• We offer flexible working hours and remote options
• We offer health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• We also offer parental leave and flexible paid time off
• All employees have company equity as part of their compensation package
• We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education