Legal Counsel

Overview

Join Pigment:
The AI Platform Redefining Business Planning. Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team—from Finance to HR—to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time. Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Snowflake, Siemens, and DPD use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.

With a team of 500+ across Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we ve raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software. At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo—all while working as one team. If you re driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

We are looking for a Legal Counsel with strong Privacy, Data Protection, IP and Commercial expertise from technology, ideally SaaS-environment to join our fast-growing company. This is a hands-on role suited to someone comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Your responsibilities will evolve over time, but from day one you will play a key role in supporting Pigment’s privacy compliance and strategic privacy initiatives, while also advising on a broad range of commercial matters across EMEA.

You will work closely with Legal, Product, Sales, R&D, Operations and other business teams.

• Maintaining Pigment’s core data protection compliance framework, including records of processing activities, policies, internal procedures and related documentation
• Contributing to and leading key privacy deliverables, including the review, update and negotiation of Pigment’s Data Processing Addendum (DPA) and related contractual documentation and advising legal, security, product and commercial teams on data protection matters in the context of SaaS contracts, customer negotiations, RFPs and calls for tenders
• Supporting R&D and Product teams on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default principles and IP questions throughout the development and deployment of new SaaS features
• Acting as a primary point of contact for privacy-related questions from internal stakeholders, providing clear, pragmatic and business-oriented guidance and participating in cross-functional processes such as procurement and vendor management, with a focus on data protection, risk assessment and third-party compliance
• Supporting the full customer contract lifecycle across EMEA, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating customer agreements, services agreements and other commercial contracts
• Delivering internal training sessions on relevant topics (e.g. contracts, privacy, data protection, marketing and compliance)
• Contributing to legal monitoring and analysis relevant to Pigment’s activities, including regulatory developments in privacy, data protection and commercial law

• 4+ years of experience in a top-tier/tech law firm or as an in-house lawyer in a fast growing tech company (ideally a SaaS start-up/scale up). Qualified to practice in France or the UK
• Curious, open-minded, adaptable and excited by the dynamic start up/growth environment
• Ability to lead and manage numerous deals and meet tight deadlines when necessary to achieve business objectives
• Strong oral and written communications skills (French and English - German would be a bonus) and a good sense of diplomacy. Self-starter with well-honed organizational and analytical skills
• Team-player and ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Thrive Together:
  We can only win as a team. We are all founders and do the right thing for our peers, Pigment customers, partners, and the planet
• Never Settle:
  We aim to become the best at what we do by delivering with rigor and ambition every day. Delivering means building a passionate Pigment community
• Go for it:
  We are biased towards action. Every action leads to…