IP Rights Manager

The Role

As an IP Rights Manager on the IP & Licensing team, you will own the operational backbone of how Mistral manages rights, obligations, and restrictions across the datasets we license. This role sits at the intersection of copyright, data protection, and AI, and exists because the volume and complexity of our data agreements have outgrown manual processes. You will work closely with the colleagues who negotiate our agreements commercially and legally, translating their work into systems, workflows, and databases that keep us compliant and scalable.

The IP & Licensing team is responsible for all content and data licensing at Mistral. Your work will directly determine whether we can use the data we acquire, how we track what we are allowed to do with it, and whether our clients and partners stay within the rights we grant them. You will build the infrastructure that makes legal analysis repeatable, not just advisory.

Your scope spans the full lifecycle of data-related agreements: clearing inbound data usage requests, codifying contract terms into structured metadata, tracking ongoing compliance obligations, and automating reporting. You will also design and run AI-powered workflows that handle contract review assistance, obligation extraction, and renewal alerts, turning legal judgment into scalable operations.

What You Will Do

• Clear inbound data usage requests by researching rights status, scope, obligations, and restrictions before data enters Mistral systems.

• Review data-related agreements and codify their key terms into structured metadata, maintaining the team's template library and playbook alongside Legal.

• Determine whether specific AI use cases are covered by third-party agreements, identify gaps, and recommend contract amendments.

• Build and maintain a central database as the single source of truth for every signed data-related agreement, covering permitted uses, confidentiality, and re-use permissions.

• Track ongoing compliance obligations and automate reporting, including renewal alerts and master licensing partnership administration.

• Develop and run AI workflows for contract review assistance, obligation extraction, and compliance monitoring.

• Verify provenance, ownership, and consents for acquired data, flagging obligations that must be tracked.

• Monitor that Mistral clients and partners operate within granted rights, administering the approval system that enforces legal restrictions.

What We're Looking For

• A bachelor's degree in law, publishing, information science, business, or a related field.

• 2 to 5 years of experience in copyright, permissions, licensing, legal operations, or contract administration, ideally in an AI, tech, or data-driven environment.

• Solid working knowledge of EU and US copyright law and contract administration, with demonstrated ability to interpret contracts independently.

• Strong attention to detail and discretion when handling confidential agreements.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain legal constraints to non-lawyers.

• A legal-ops mindset: you take initiative, anticipate needs through ambiguity, and think about how to operationalize legal analysis at scale.

• Comfort building agentic AI workflows in a complex enterprise environment; you are an AI power user, not just a consumer.

• Fluency in French, German, Spanish, or another European language is a plus, as is experience with CLM tools like Ironclad, prior work setting up AI workflows in a legal team, or contracting experience with publishing houses.

What We Offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.

For the most up-to-date details on benefits available in your location, please refer to our Benefits page.