Job Overview
Location
Paris
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
March 26, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As the HR Legal & Employee Relations Manager at Scaleway SAS, you will serve as the strategic right hand to the CHRO, ensuring legal compliance and operational excellence across all European Availability Zones while driving the company’s international expansion through expert management of employment law, social relations, and cross-border HR initiatives.
- • Your day-to-day responsibilities will include piloting HR implementation for new country openings by conducting local benchmarks, drafting compliant employment contracts, and ensuring adherence to social protection regulations; coordinating and challenging external legal counsel and payroll providers across European regions to optimize cost and compliance; managing international mobility files such as secondments, expatriation, and cross-border recruitment; acting as the lead internal expert for management on employment law matters including contracts, working hours, disciplinary actions, and terminations; overseeing pre-litigation and litigation cases in direct collaboration with specialized law firms; maintaining a continuous legal watch on evolving French and European legislation to ensure ongoing compliance; preparing and co-animating meetings with Employee Representative Bodies (CSE) and social committees; defining strategy and leading negotiations for collective company agreements; and advising leadership on social climate to foster constructive dialogue with social partners.
- • You will join a collaborative, international HR team within Scaleway, a fast-growing European cloud and AI leader backed by the Iliad Group’s €3 billion investment in sovereign AI, where diversity, technical excellence, and a spirit of sharing drive innovation across offices in Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Bordeaux, and Lyon.
- • In this role, you will develop deep expertise in multi-jurisdictional European employment law, strengthen your strategic influence as a trusted business partner to senior leadership, and gain hands-on experience shaping collective bargaining strategies and social dialogue in a high-growth tech environment — positioning you for advanced leadership roles within Scaleway or the broader Iliad Group.
🎯 Requirements
- • Master 2 (Level 2) degree in Social Law or Human Resources
- • 5-7 years of proven experience in a similar HR legal or employee relations role, preferably in a law firm or international multi-site environment
- • Demonstrated expertise in managing social relations, collective bargaining, and employee representative bodies across multiple European jurisdictions
- • Full professional fluency in English for daily interaction with international teams and foreign legal counsel
- • Strong strategic anticipation skills with the ability to plan 6–12 months ahead on legal and social files
- • Business partner mindset: ability to translate legal complexity into actionable business solutions that support decision-making
🏖️ Benefits
- • Hybrid work model with up to 3 days of remote work per week
- • Spacious, modern offices near public transport featuring outdoor terraces and bike parking facilities
- • Healthy meal service at headquarters and Swile lunch cards for regional site employees
- • Access to well-being resources including gym access, daycare support, and discounted care services
- • Stimulating international work environment where English and French are both widely spoken
- • Clear career mobility paths within Scaleway and the wider Iliad Group, encouraging internal transitions and growth
Skills & Technologies
About Scaleway SAS
Scaleway is a French cloud infrastructure provider offering public cloud services including compute instances, Kubernetes, object and block storage, managed databases, serverless functions, and private networks. Founded in 1999 as Online.net, the company rebranded to Scaleway in 2015 and operates multiple data centers across Europe. It targets startups, developers, and enterprises seeking alternatives to hyperscale providers, emphasizing European data sovereignty, predictable pricing, and developer-friendly tooling. Services are delivered through self-service APIs and a web console, with support for infrastructure as code via Terraform and other automation frameworks.
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