IP Rights & Data Licensing Lead

Mistral; Paris; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Meal and transportation allowances

Job summary

Mistral is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to join the IP & Licensing team. You will turn legal analysis into repeatable workflows, manage rights and obligations across our data portfolio, and codify contracts into structured metadata to support scalable AI workloads.

Your work ensures compliant data acquisition and use, with clear provenance, ownership, and consent records. You will collaborate with legal, product, and partnerships to keep licenses aligned with EU and US

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in law, publishing, information science, business, or a related field.
• 2–5 years in copyright, permissions, licensing, legal operations, or contract administration in AI/tech/data environments.
• Working knowledge of EU and US copyright law and contract administration.
• Ability to interpret contracts independently with attention to detail.
• Discretion with confidential contracts and strong project-management skills.
• Clear, direct communication and initiative in ambiguity.
• A mindset to turn legal analysis into repeatable, scalable processes.

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 AI use cases against third-party agreements and flag gaps for amendments.
• Build and maintain a central database serving as the single source of truth for data-related agreements.
• Track ongoing obligations, automate reporting, and manage master licensing partnerships.
• Verify provenance, ownership, and consent for acquired data and monitor obligations.
• Ensure clients stay within granted rights and operate the approval system enforcing restrictions.
• Design and run AI-powered workflows for contract review, obligation extraction, and renewal alerts.

Skills

Legal ops mindset

Project management

Attention to detail

Clear communication

AI workflows in legal

Contract interpretation

Discretion with confidential contracts

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in law

Related fields: publishing/information science/business

Tools

Ironclad

CLM platforms

Job description

Mistral is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to join the IP & Licensing team. You will turn legal analysis into repeatable workflows, manage rights and obligations across our data portfolio, and codify contracts into structured metadata to support scalable AI workloads.

Your work ensures compliant data acquisition and use, with clear provenance, ownership, and consent records. You will collaborate with legal, product, and partnerships to keep licenses aligned with EU and US