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# Head of Solutions Operations at Mistral

- **Company:** [Mistral](https://feeny.ai/companies/mistral)
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mistral.ai/27e2dd78-7f79-4337-a127-4049c822728d

## Job description

## About Mistral

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms. We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.

## About the job

Mistral builds AI systems that enterprises run on their own terms, in finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector. The Solutions organization turns customers' hardest problems into AI they own, run, and scale on Mistral. It is one of the fastest-growing functions in the company: 650 people by end of 2026, across EMEA, the US, and Asia-Pacific, delivering measurable business outcomes for enterprise customers worldwide. The Solutions organization includes Deployment Strategists, Applied AI Engineers, Infrastructure Solution Architects, and Applied Scientists. They work with enterprise customers from pre-sales through implementation and deliver AI systems that produce measurable business outcomes. Solutions Operations is the function that makes this scale. It runs staffing and capacity planning across regions, the go-to-market motion by industry vertical and capability, delivery processes and tooling, the data behind our decisions, and value and customer-success measurement, with hubs in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. We are hiring a Head of Solutions Operations. We are looking for an entrepreneurial COO or a former Forward Deployed Engineer with years of experience. This is a build-the-1-to-10 role: you will take a young, fast-growing function and turn it into the operating system that lets Solutions scale from hundreds to thousands of people without losing what makes it work. You will lead a team of program leads and regional operators across three continents, and work as a business partner to Solutions leadership.

## What you will do

- Own the Solutions operating system end to end. One process from pre-sales to post-sales, a single source of truth for people, projects, and opportunities, the Solutions tooling stack, and safety, security, and compliance built into how the team works.
- Industrialize what already works. Turn delivery and vertical playbooks, staffing frameworks, and the value and ROI methodology into reusable assets the whole team runs on, and drive their adoption in every geography.
- Build the global operating model. Keep core operations centralized while ensuring real adoption and the right local adaptation across EMEA, the US, and Asia-Pacific, with full-stack regional operators on the ground.
- Staff demanding customer engagements. Own capacity planning and forecasting, skills-to-project matching, time-to-staff, utilization, and bench health across all geographies.
- Make customer success measurable. Stand up delivery-outcome measurement and customer-satisfaction systems, and run the feedback loop that turns field learnings into product requirements and reusable IP.
- Make AI-native operations the default. Build internal tools, agents, and automations that remove manual work from planning, staffing, reporting, and delivery follow-ups, starting with your own team.
- Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop program leads and regional operators, raise the technical bar of the function, and build the hiring plan for its next phase.
- Partner across functions. Work daily with Solutions leadership, regional Sales leadership, Product and Engineering, RevOps, and Talent Acquisition, and bring executive judgment on where to invest, slow down, or say no.

## How We Work in Solutions

- We care about people and outputs. What matters is what you ship.
- The best idea wins, whether it comes from a principal engineer or someone in their first week.
- Always ask why. The best solutions come from deep understanding, not copying what worked before.
- We say what we mean. Feedback is direct and given because we care. No politics. Low ego, high standards.
- We embrace an unstructured environment and find joy in it.

## About you

Whatever your path, you bring:

- Extensive leadership experience, with demonstrated impact building and leading teams or functions in a fast-scaling environment.
- A track record of industrializing something handcrafted but working: processes, systems, and teams that scaled an order of magnitude without losing what made them work.
- The ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution. You are hands-on and biased toward action.
- Data-driven and AI-fluent: you build the internal tools, automations, dashboards, and AI workflows you rely on.
- Global operating range: you work naturally across geographies and cultures, with the executive presence to hold a room with C-level stakeholders and the credibility to challenge senior leaders.
- Stakeholder management: you align competing priorities and drive decisions without formal authority.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

Ideally

- Experience in enterprise software, AI, or deep-tech delivery, or top-tier strategy consulting on complex technical transformations.
- Experience operating at global scale across EMEA, the US, and Asia-Pacific.
- Hands-on experience building AI-native operations: automating workflows with LLMs and agents rather than prompting a chatbot.
- MBA or advanced degree preferred.

## 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](https://app.notion.com/p/mistralai/Benefits-at-Mistral-36e6ba59a7fe836b93dd01737fcc27ef?source=copy_link).

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## About Mistral

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mistral is a French AI company building open, frontier-grade large language models, developer platforms, and applied AI solutions for enterprises and governments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (15 rue des Halles)
- **Founded**: April 2023
- **Founders**: Arthur Mensch (CEO), Guillaume Lample (Chief Science Officer), Timothée Lacroix (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Enterprise AI Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, Government, and Developers (B2D)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make frontier AI open to all, and together solve the world's hardest problems."

## Products & Services
- **Mistral Large**: Frontier-grade large language model for complex reasoning and enterprise tasks.
- **Mistral Small 3**: Efficient, lightweight model for cost-sensitive deployments.
- **Mistral Code / Vibe**: AI agent for long-horizon, autonomous software development and task completion.
- **Le Chat**: Consumer-facing AI assistant and chatbot.
- **Mistral OCR 4**: State-of-the-art document intelligence model for extracting and understanding text from images and PDFs.
- **Mistral Forge**: Custom model development service for training, aligning, and evaluating proprietary AI models on private data.
- **Mistral Studio**: Platform for building, testing, and running AI agents and applications with full control.
- **Mistral Compute**: Infrastructure and orchestration platform for frontier-scale training and inference (edge to cloud).
- **Mistral Search Toolkit**: Tools for integrating search and retrieval into AI applications.
- **Voxtral**: Voice AI model for speech-based interactions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $4.016 billion (latest reported valuation, per CB Insights; date not specified but likely post-Series C)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised across Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series C rounds (specific amounts not disclosed in search results).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in search results, but the company partners with organizations in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and the public sector.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Rapid scaling: 900+ employees across 30+ nationalities as of mid-2026.
  - 50% of leadership roles held by women.
  - Key product launches on a near-monthly cadence (e.g., Mistral OCR, Forge, Vibe, Compute, Search Toolkit, Voxtral).
  - Strong presence in high-stakes, regulated industries (defense, energy, public sector).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source DNA**: Commitment to openness, transparency, and cost efficiency differentiates Mistral from closed, Big Tech AI labs.
- **Full-stack ownership**: Controls the entire stack from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute infrastructure, enabling deep customization and reliability.
- **European leadership**: Positioned as a sovereign, European AI champion, appealing to governments and enterprises seeking data control and regulatory compliance.
- **Speed and rigor**: Culture of rapid experimentation, iteration, and data-driven decision-making.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise and government partnerships**: Co-creating tailored AI systems for mission-critical use cases in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy, and public sector.
- **Open platform ecosystem**: Expanding Mistral Studio and Forge to enable customers to build custom models and agents on their own data.
- **Infrastructure as a product**: Commercializing Mistral Compute to become a platform for others to train and run AI workloads.
- **Continuous model innovation**: Releasing new frontier models and capabilities (OCR, voice, code agents) at a rapid pace.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Flat structure, high ownership, low ego, and a "builders, not order takers" mentality. The company values audacity, speed, rigor, and customer centricity.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Based in Paris (15 rue des Halles); relocation support and visa sponsorship offered. Specific remote/hybrid policy not detailed, but global team suggests flexibility.
- **Notable perks and benefits** (from careers page):
  - 20 weeks paid parental leave for all birthing parents.
  - 100% employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
  - 6% 401k match (US) / 5% pension contribution (UK).
  - Childcare support (reserved daycare seats or financial assistance).
  - Meal allowances and transportation support.
  - Fitness and wellness subsidies.
  - Relocation and settling-in services.
  - Financial and career planning support.
- **Team composition**: 900+ employees from 30+ nationalities; 50% female leaders.
- **Interview process**: For science, product, and engineering roles: intro conversation → 2-5 technical exercises → 1-3 interviews (hiring manager + teammates) → values conversation → reference checks.

## Sources
1. [Mistral AI - About Page](https://mistral.ai/about/)
2. [Mistral AI - Careers Page](https://mistral.ai/careers/)
3. [Mistral AI - Homepage](https://mistral.ai/)
4. [CB Insights - Mistral AI Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/mistral-ai)
5. [Mistral AI - LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mistralai)

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