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title: 'Legal counsel at MakiPeople'
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# Legal counsel at MakiPeople

- **Company:** MakiPeople
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maki/34e576ab-b916-42ee-8010-070b6d7a93cb

## Job description

As Legal Counsel, you’ll help shape and build Maki’s legal function. This is a broad, hands-on role spanning commercial contracts, legal operations, privacy, product, regulatory matters, and company strategy. Your mission is to create a scalable legal function that supports clear rules, fast decisions, and responsible growth. You’ll work closely with Sales, Leadership, Security, Product, and Engineering to turn legal obligations into practical decisions across the company.

## What you’ll do

Lead commercial contracting

- Review, draft, and negotiate customer agreements, including master services agreements (MSAs), data processing agreements (DPAs), security and privacy provisions, and related commercial documentation.
- Represent Maki in negotiations with customer legal and procurement teams, using sound commercial judgment to determine which requirements to accept, mitigate, or challenge.
- Help the commercial team understand the practical implications of contractual commitments before they are made.
- Develop negotiation positions, fallback clauses, and contracting standards that make enterprise contracting more efficient while managing risk.
- Coordinate with Sales, Leadership, Security, Product, and Engineering to ensure commitments are clear and achievable.

Build scalable legal operations

- Develop and maintain standard agreements, terms and conditions, privacy policies, and other core legal documentation.
- Create processes for contract review, approvals, renewals, and legal requests, with clear ownership and decision-making responsibilities.
- Build templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and internal guidance to help teams handle common legal questions consistently.
- Select and implement legal tools and workflows as the volume and complexity of legal work grow.
- Make legal knowledge and contractual obligations accessible to the teams responsible for acting on them.

Advise on product, privacy, and regulation

- Monitor developments in AI, privacy, employment, data protection, and other regulations affecting Maki and its customers.
- Translate regulatory and contractual obligations into practical product and operational requirements.
- Work with Product and Engineering to identify necessary features, controls, workflows, and technical capabilities.
- Advise the commercial team on how legal requirements affect product positioning, sales, and deployment.
- Help leadership assess emerging legal risks and make informed strategic and operational decisions.
- Develop practical policies and processes that meet legal obligations without unnecessarily slowing teams or customers.

## What you’ll bring

- Qualification as a legal counsel in a relevant jurisdiction.
- Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Strong experience in technology, SaaS, data, privacy, or related commercial legal matters.
- A practical understanding of GDPR, data protection, and the regulatory environment surrounding technology and AI.
- Sound judgment in distinguishing material legal and commercial risks from theoretical concerns.
- The ability to explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers, both in writing and in conversation.
- A constructive, commercially minded approach to negotiations with sophisticated customer legal teams.
- The ability to work independently and build structure where little currently exists.

## Nice to have

- Experience negotiating agreements with large enterprise customers.
- Experience with AI regulation, employment technology, or enterprise software.
- Experience building the legal function of a fast-growing technology company.

What success looks like

- Enterprise contracts move efficiently, with clear commitments and appropriate risk management.
- Legal documentation, processes, and decision-making practices scale with the company.
- Teams understand how legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations affect their work and translate them into practical action.

## About MakiPeople

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MakiPeople provides an AI-powered hiring platform that uses intelligent agents to automate candidate screening, assessment, and hiring decisions, reducing bias and saving recruiter time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A funded)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States (with a significant office in Paris, France)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Maxime Legardez-Coquin (CEO), Paul-Louis Caylar (COO), Benjamin Chino (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: HR technology, AI recruiting, talent acquisition
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprise organizations (e.g., H&M, Capgemini, BNP Paribas, Amazon, Nestlé, Sephora) and staffing firms / RPOs
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Give human resources more-than-human powers” – building AI agents that liberate HR teams, advance organizations, and expand human potential.

## Products & Services
- **Mochi** – AI conversational screening agent that replaces manual recruiter phone screens. Conducts branded voice or web interviews to check eligibility, motivation, and language skills.
- **Shiro** – Skills assessment agent that delivers short, science-based tests (cognitive, behavioral, technical) early in the funnel to replace subjective CV screening.
- **Ken** – Deep assessment agent for late‑funnel, high‑stakes hires (case studies, coding challenges, leadership scenarios). Available as an add‑on to Shiro.
- **Kumi** – Scheduling agent that integrates with Google and Outlook calendars for candidate self‑booking, reducing no‑shows.
- **Riku** (early access) – Internal mobility and talent development agent that maps employee skills, suggests career paths, and supports upskilling.
- **Interview Co‑pilot** – Live interview structuring with transcript, structured notes, and scoring against competencies set during intake.
- **Intake** – JD‑to‑structured hiring journey module that produces a live pipeline in 30 minutes without engineering tickets.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $39,143,444 (Seed $12.4M in Nov 2021 led by Founders Future; Series A $26.8M in Jan 2025 led by Blossom Capital)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Founders Future, Blossom Capital; customers include H&M, PwC, Amazon, Nestlé, Sephora, Capgemini, BNP Paribas
- **Growth Signals**: 91 employees (+34.1% YoY); operates in 10 countries; helped H&M save 250,000 recruiter hours, reduce time‑to‑hire by 4x, and cut turnover by 22% (delivering $85M ROI); candidate satisfaction consistently above 99% positive; 90% automation achieved for some clients.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI agents that work on top of existing ATS** – No rip‑and‑replace; integrates with current systems, syncing data from ATS, HRIS, and other tools.
- **Bias‑mitigation built in** – Fairness controls, structured methods, and external audits limit unwanted bias; explainable scoring and audit trails make decisions defensible to legal and compliance.
- **Science‑grade assessments** – Models validated against actual performance data, proven correlation to job performance, and independent audits.
- **End‑to‑end automation** – From intake to hire recommendation, covering screening, assessment, interviewing, and scheduling, all in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding AI agents for HR** – Riku (internal mobility) signals a move beyond hiring into talent management and upskilling.
- **Staffing firm transformation** – Helping staffing and RPO firms deliver lower‑cost, higher‑quality services at scale.
- **Global scaling** – Already operating in 10 countries with offices in New York, Paris, London, and others; hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Values include “Limitless ambition,” “Embrace intensity,” “Play to win,” “Stronger together,” and “Push the boundaries.” The company emphasizes speed, precision, and data‑driven decision‑making.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid model – some roles are hybrid (e.g., BDR Manager, Software Engineer), others are in‑office or onsite. Offices in New York, Paris, and other locations.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the team emphasizes impact, growth, and working with top‑tier clients. Engineering culture is deeply AI‑focused, with roles like AI Scientist, Software Engineer, and Head of Science.
- **Open roles**: 16 active job postings (as of mid‑2025) including AI Scientist, Software Engineer, Enterprise Account Executive, Growth Marketing Associate, Customer Success Manager, and Implementation roles.

## Sources
1. [makipeople.com](https://www.makipeople.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/makipeople)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/makipeople)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/maki)

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