Legal Operations Intern

Hcompany; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 12,000 - 16,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Professional development opportunities

Direct exposure to General Counsel

Job summary

H, a pioneering AI startup, seeks a Paris-based intern for the Legal team. You will automate contract workflows, manage templates, and coordinate approvals with Sales, Finance, and Engineering.

The role emphasizes GDPR, IP, and increasingly AI regulation, requiring strong language skills and a proactive, organized mindset. You will work under the General Counsel, in a hybrid Paris office, contributing to live deals, policy playbooks, and a growing data room.

Qualifications

• Strong grounding in contract law with interest in commercial, data protection (GDPR) and IP.
• Fluent in French and English, written and spoken.
• Comfortable with modern tools (Notion, Google Workspace) and keen to use AI in daily work.
• Highly organized and rigorous: nothing falls through the cracks, and deadlines are tracked.
• Bonus: experience building simple automations or no-code workflows.

Responsibilities

• Tooling and automation of the contract lifecycle and related processes.
• Map existing legal processes and identify bottlenecks; deliver costed recommendations.
• Build automations: intake forms, approval workflows, and first-pass reviews.
• Create dashboards showing request volumes, turnaround times, and active contracts.
• Front door for legal requests: triage and route NDAs, customer contracts, vendors, HR.
• Maintain template library, playbooks, data room, and corporate records.
• Support GDPR compliance, IP portfolio tracking, and external spend tracking.

Skills

Contract law

GDPR

IP law

French (Fluent)

English (Fluent)

Notion

Google Workspace

No-code workflows

AI regulation interest

Education

Barreau de Paris / PPI eligible (EFB) or M2 in business law

Tools

Notion

Google Workspace

Job description

About H:

H exists to push the boundaries of superintelligence with agentic AI. By automating complex, multi-step tasks typically performed by humans, AI agents will help unlock full human potential.

H is hiring the world’s best AI talent, seeking those who are dedicated as much to building safely and responsibly as to advancing disruptive agentic capabilities. We promote a mindset of openness, learning, and collaboration, where everyone has something to contribute.

About the Role:

Our Legal team, based in Paris, supports every deal, hire and partnership at H. As requests grow, we want legal work to run on clear processes and good tools rather than on inboxes. You will be the front door for legal requests, run the contract lifecycle day to day, and above all build the tooling and automations that let the team move faster. You will report to our General Counsel.

This is a 6 month internship, open to EFB (Barreau de Paris) students completing their PPI, or to recent graduates of an M2 in business law.

Key Responsibilities:

• Tooling and automation (the core of the role):

• Map our existing legal processes and identify bottlenecks.

• Benchmark tools (contract lifecycle management, e-signature, request management) and deliver a costed recommendation.

• Build simple automations: intake forms, approval workflows, and Claude projects for first-pass contract reviews.

• Create a dashboard showing request volumes, turnaround times and active contracts.

• Front door for legal requests:

• Receive, triage and route internal requests (NDAs, customer contracts, vendors, HR).

• Set up and maintain a request tracker (Notion, Linear or similar) with status, priority and deadline.

• Follow up with internal and external stakeholders to keep matters moving.

• Contract lifecycle:

• Prepare first drafts from templates (NDAs, POCs, standard order forms), always reviewed by the General Counsel.

• Coordinate internal approvals with Sales, Finance and Engineering, and own our e-signature workflows from start to finish.

• Maintain a register of signed contracts: parties, dates, term, auto-renewal, notice periods and liability caps.

• Flag key deadlines such as renewals, terminations and POC end dates.

• Documentation and knowledge management:

• Organise the template library and fallback clauses.

• Write internal playbooks, for example “how to request an NDA” or “customer contract approval flow”.

• Keep the data room and corporate records up to date (shareholder meetings, President’s decisions, statutory registers).

• Compliance and inventories:

• Maintain GDPR records: processing activities, sub-processors and signed DPAs.

• Inventory our trademark and IP portfolio.

• Prepare tracking sheets for AI Act compliance.

• Legal spend tracking:

• Centralise outside counsel invoices and track budgets per matter.

Requirements:

• Education:

• EFB (Barreau de Paris) student looking for a PPI internship, ideally, or a recent M2 graduate in business law.

• Technical Skills:

• Solid grounding in contract law, with an interest in commercial, data protection (GDPR) and IP topics.

• Fluent French and English, written and spoken.

• Comfortable with modern tools (Notion, Google Workspace, spreadsheets) and keen to use AI in your daily work.

• Soft Skills:

• Highly organised and rigorous: nothing falls through the cracks, and every deadline is tracked.

• You follow up without being asked and keep several matters moving at once.

• Clear writer, able to turn a process into a playbook anyone can follow.

• Discreet with confidential information.

• Bonus Skills:

• Experience building simple automations or no-code workflows.

• Exposure to legal tech (CLM, e-signature platforms) or legal operations.

• Interest in AI regulation, including the AI Act.

Location:

• Paris.

• This role is hybrid, and you are expected to be in the office 3 days a week on average.

What We Offer:

• Join the exciting journey of shaping the future of AI, and be part of the early days of one of the hottest AI startups.

• Real ownership: the processes and tools you build will become how our Legal team works.

• Work directly with our General Counsel on live deals and compliance topics.

• Collaborate with a fun, dynamic, and multicultural team, working alongside world-class AI talent in a highly collaborative environment.

• Unlock opportunities for professional growth, continuous learning, and career development.

If you want to change the status quo in AI, join us.