Data Licensing & IP Rights Specialist

Mistral AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Relocation support

Wellness programs

Job summary

Mistral AI in London is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to own data rights workflows and ensure compliant use of training data across EU and US law.

You will codify contract terms into metadata, maintain a central rights repository, and build AI-powered processes that scale governance. Collaboration with legal, product, and partnerships teams is essential to minimize bottlenecks while protecting rights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law, publishing, information science, business, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in copyright, permissions, licensing, or contract administration in AI/tech environments.
• Working knowledge of EU and US copyright law and contract administration.
• Meticulous attention to detail and discretion with confidential contracts, with strong project-management skills.
• Clear, direct communication and the initiative to anticipate needs through ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Clear inbound data usage requests by researching rights status, scope, obligations, and restrictions — including anonymization and data protection requirements — before data enters our systems.
• Review data-related agreements and codify their key terms into structured metadata, maintaining our template library and playbook alongside Legal.
• Assess whether specific AI use cases fall within the scope of third-party agreements, flag gaps, and recommend contract amendments.
• Build and maintain a central database that serves as the single source of truth for every signed data-related agreement.
• Track and manage compliance with ongoing obligations — permitted uses, confidentiality, re-use rights — automate our reporting, and administer master licensing partnerships.
• Verify provenance, ownership, and consent for acquired data, and identify obligations that require active monitoring.
• Monitor that Mistral clients and partners stay within their granted rights, operating the approval system that enforces legal restrictions.
• Design and run AI-powered workflows for contract review assistance, obligation extraction, and renewal alerts.

Skills

Legal operations

Copyright law

Contract administration

EU/US law interpretation

Education

Law degree

Tools

Ironclad CLM

Job description

Mistral AI in London is seeking a Legal Operations Specialist – Data Licensing to own data rights workflows and ensure compliant use of training data across EU and US law.

You will codify contract terms into metadata, maintain a central rights repository, and build AI-powered processes that scale governance. Collaboration with legal, product, and partnerships teams is essential to minimize bottlenecks while protecting rights.