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Mistral is a full-stack AI company providing frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute infrastructure. The company partners with enterprises across finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to co-create customized AI systems.
As Legal Counsel, you will be an early member of Mistral's US legal team, reporting into the global legal organization. This is a high-impact role combining commercial contract work with legal operations innovation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts (customer MSAs, order forms, partnership agreements) to support North American business growth
- Collaborating with technical teams (engineering, applied AI, science), business teams, and legal colleagues across the organization
- Developing and improving tools to automate legal workflows, approval processes, compliance, and internal training materials
- Creating and refining contract templates to support company scaling
- Providing solution-oriented legal, regulatory, and strategic advice to cross-functional teams from project inception through launch
- Managing relationships with outside counsel on projects you oversee
- Staying current on US and international AI regulations, privacy/data protection, competition law, consumer protection, payments, and IP
- Building relationships internally and with external partners
- Occasional travel to Paris headquarters
You will work in a dynamic, distributed startup environment (teams across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East) where you are expected to be nimble, tackle new areas of law quickly, and help design the legal department of the future.
Requirements:
- JD from accredited law school; member in good standing of a US state bar
- 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house legal experience, including project management
- In-house experience at a technology company and/or in fast-paced, high-growth environment strongly preferred
- Experience managing technology implementation/solutions projects to corporate operational standards
- Demonstrated experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including creating and refining form agreements
- Fluency in common AI tools with a track record of responsibly using AI to drive efficiency and process improvement
- Generalist mindset with willingness to tackle problems outside core expertise
- Ability to balance attention to detail with fast-paced execution
- Strong business judgment and ability to analyze costs/benefits of complex legal and technical resolutions
- Proven ability to build solid, trusting relationships with science, engineering, business, and marketing teams
- Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Understanding of AI technologies and their applications, including intersection with privacy/data protection, competition law, IP, and ethical considerations (fairness, transparency, accountability, bias mitigation)
- International mindset and experience a plus
- Adaptability and commitment to continuous learning in rapidly evolving AI legal landscape
