Senior Legal Counsel (France)

As EMEA Senior Legal Counsel, you will join the rapidly growing global legal team supporting Databricks' business activities. Your work will involve diverse matters such as developing our business across multiple jurisdictions, negotiating commercial contracts, and addressing issues related to security and privacy. You should be agile, highly organized, and possess the skills, drive, and flexibility to support and accelerate this leading technology company, handling cutting-edge legal issues and organizational challenges.

The impact you will have:

• Draft and negotiate complex, non-standard agreements;
• Advise sales teams on deal processes and contract management;
• Lead on French localisation OKR projects;
• Understand product, data security, and privacy issues to guide the sales team during negotiations and in other contexts;
• Standardize documentation across multiple jurisdictions;
• Understand Databricks' internal structures, product offerings, technology, security/data protection systems, and policies to support all lines of business;
• Provide general legal support across the organization.

What we look for:

• Fluent (CERF C2 or native) English and French speaker capable of drafting complex obligations in both languages;
• Qualified attorney or solicitor (or EU equivalent) with 8+ years of relevant post-qualification experience, including experience in an English-speaking jurisdiction;
• Relevant in-house legal experience in the tech sector;
• Understanding of cloud services, technology, channel, and professional services contracts;
• High-level negotiation and legal drafting skills;
• Solid knowledge of business processes related to commercial, intellectual property, and data privacy law, ideally gained in-house;
• Ability to manage workload in a fast-paced environment with competing demands;
• A strong desire to be part of a dynamic legal team supporting a leader in data and AI.

About Databricks

Databricks is a data and AI company serving over 10,000 organizations worldwide, including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500. We rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify data, analytics, and AI. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices globally, we were founded by the creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. To learn more, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Benefits

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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