Design Operations Manager
Mistral AIVisit Mistral AI website
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
Paris, France
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI develops open-weight and commercial language models and provides a full-stack AI platform spanning agents, application development, custom-model training, APIs, and AI cloud infrastructure.
Skills
About the Role
You will own how the Design team operates as a system: its cadences, rituals and coordination. You'll run weekly and quarterly cadences, design decision forums, coordinate launches between Brand, Marketing, Product and Design, and automate repetitive coordination with AI. This is a team-of-one, founding role reporting to the Head of Product Operations.
Requirements
- 6–10 years in design operations, product operations, program management or chief-of-staff roles
- Experience building operational disciplines from scratch
- Comfortable automating with AI tools
- Strong systems thinking
- Design literacy
- Excellent communication and synthesis skills
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity
Responsibilities
- Define the operating system of the design team
- Own weekly and quarterly cadences
- Coordinate Brand x Marketing and Product x Product Design interlocks
- Establish how the team tracks and shares out work
- Design and hold decision-making forums
- Cut overhead rituals while keeping those that create alignment
- Automate repetitive coordination, reporting and tracking with AI
- Bring Product Operations tools such as analytics, feedback loops and launch coordination to design
- Partner with marketing, PMs, engineering and GTM
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal and transportation allowances
