AI Data Licensing & Rights Manager

Mistral Ai; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Retirement plans

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal allowance

Transportation allowance

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to join the IP & Licensing team in Paris. You will turn legal analysis into repeatable workflows, manage data rights and obligations, and help scale AI data usage across products while ensuring EU and US compliance.

You will codify contract terms, build metadata, and automate workflows that reduce bottlenecks and improve data-licensing accuracy for data ingested into AI systems.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in law, publishing, information science, business, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in copyright, permissions, licensing, legal operations, or contract administration.
• Working knowledge of EU and US copyright law and contract administration, with ability to interpret contracts independently.
• Meticulous attention to detail and discretion with confidential contracts, with strong project-management skills.
• Clear, direct communication and initiative to anticipate needs through ambiguity.
• A legal-ops mindset: turn legal analysis into repeatable, scalable processes.
• Comfort building agentic AI workflows in a complex enterprise environment, ideally with experience.
• Depth in CLM platforms (e.g., Ironclad) or European languages is welcome.

Responsibilities

• Clear inbound data usage requests by researching rights status, scope, obligations, and restrictions before data enters systems.
• Review data-related agreements and codify key terms into structured metadata and templates.
• Assess whether AI use cases fall within third-party agreements and flag gaps for amendments.
• Build and maintain a central database serving as the single source of truth for data agreements.
• Track and manage ongoing obligations, automate reporting, and administer master licensing partnerships.
• Verify provenance, ownership, and consent for acquired data and identify monitoring obligations.
• Monitor client/partner rights and run the approval system enforcing contractual restrictions.
• Design and run AI-powered workflows for contract review, obligation extraction, and renewals.

Skills

Legal operations

Data licensing

Contract administration

EU copyright law

US copyright law

Attention to detail

Project management

Communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in law

Tools

Ironclad

Contract lifecycle management

Job description

Mistral is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to join the IP & Licensing team in Paris. You will turn legal analysis into repeatable workflows, manage data rights and obligations, and help scale AI data usage across products while ensuring EU and US compliance.

You will codify contract terms, build metadata, and automate workflows that reduce bottlenecks and improve data-licensing accuracy for data ingested into AI systems.