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Legal Counsel - US

Mistral AI · Palo Alto · Remote

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About Mistral AI

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models. Backed by General Catalyst, Index and Lightspeed.

About the role

Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts across the business, including customer MSAs and order forms and partnership agreements. Collaborate with a cross-functional group of Mistral’s technical (including engineering, applied AI, and science), business, and legal teams. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • JD from an accredited law school and member in good standing of a U.S. state bar
  • 4+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, including experience in project management. In-house experience at a technology company and/or in a fast-paced and high-growth environment is a strong plus
  • Experience managing technology implementation/solutions projects to meet corporate operational standards
  • Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including creating and refining form agreements
  • Fluency in common AI tools, and a track record of responsibly using AI technologies to drive efficiency and process improvement
  • Generalist skill set with the willingness to tackle problems outside your core expertise
More about this role

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.

We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

As Legal Counsel, you’ll be an early member of the Mistral legal team in the US, which forms part of the global legal team. The core of this role is (a) drafting and negotiating commercial agreements to support the growth of our business in North America and (b) supporting the development of AI tools to scale Mistral’s legal operations. As part of a start-up legal team, you’ll need to be nimble enough to quickly ramp up on new areas of law, such as product matters (privacy, marketing, and regulatory compliance), intellectual...

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