Design Operations Manager (AI)

Location: Paris, France; other location: London, United Kingdom

Company

Mistral AI provides full-stack AI solutions, including frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute, for enterprises in high-stakes industries.

What you will do

• Define and continuously improve the design team's operating system, including cadences, forums, rituals, and a single source of truth.
• Own weekly and quarterly planning, leadership syncs, critiques, retrospectives, share-outs, and headcount-cycle inputs.
• Coordinate Brand × Marketing and Product × Product Design interlocks so dependencies and launch timing are planned in advance.
• Design and facilitate decision-making forums, ensuring decisions are recorded and not repeatedly revisited.
• Automate repetitive coordination, reporting, and tracking with AI, and introduce data, analytics, feedback loops, early-access programs, and launch coordination.
• Partner with marketing, PMs, engineering, and GTM to align design work with product releases and go-to-market timing.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in design operations, product operations, program management, or a chief-of-staff role within a creative or product organization.
• Experience building operational disciplines from scratch rather than only maintaining inherited systems.
• Comfort automating with AI tools and coordinating people without direct authority.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design repeatable rhythms and processes rather than only run meetings.
• Design literacy and sufficient background to understand designers' challenges and work credibly with the design team.
• Positive, action-oriented approach focused on unblocking issues rather than escalating them.
• Excellent communication and synthesis skills, including turning scattered signals into a shared source of truth.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and define scope independently in a role with no existing playbook or team to delegate to.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, creative, low-ego, and team-oriented environment across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and meal and transportation allowances.
• Benefits are tailored to the employee's location.