Legal Tech & Ops Associate (ip & Licensing Business)

Mistral AI Mistral AI · AI Frontier · Palo Alto, CA · Legal

This role focuses on managing IP and licensing operations, including tracking opportunities, analyzing data, and optimizing patent processes. It involves using AI tools to enhance operational efficiency and data accuracy within the legal and IP domains.

What you'd actually do

  1. Maintain and update databases of licensing and data partnership opportunities, tracking status, terms, and key stakeholders.
  2. Enrich licensing databases with metadata, deduplicate assets, evaluate content, identify sources, and ensure accuracy using AI, SQL, Python, or/and BI tools.
  3. Verify legitimacy of new data and licensing partners through business checks. Ensure completion of required agreements and compliance forms.
  4. Monitor patent filings, deadlines, and portfolio metrics using dashboards and automated tools.
  5. Automate patent operations and improve data accuracy using Mistral AI’s tools and external platforms.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years in IP operations, licensing, or a related field
  • data management
  • process improvement
  • operational support
  • database management
  • data analysis
  • dashboard creation (e.g., Slack, Notion, Workflows, Excel/G-sheets, SQL, or BI tools)
  • Attention to Detail
  • Communication
  • Tool Savvy
  • IP management software
  • docketing systems
  • Adaptability
  • proactive and solution-oriented mindset
  • International Mindset

Nice to have

  • patent prosecution workflows
  • IP portfolio management
  • Experience with AI-driven legal tech solutions
  • Background in data science
  • competitive intelligence
  • business analytics

What the JD emphasized

  • legal tech
  • AI to transform how IP and licensing operations are managed
  • legal challenges with technology
  • analyzing data for strategic decisions
  • AI-driven legal tech solutions