Job Overview
Job description
- Location:
- Palo Alto, United States
- Work arrangement:
- On-site
Role Summary
As Workplace Operations Manager based in our Palo Alto office — Mistral's North America HQ (~11k sq ft in Downtown Palo Alto) — you'll own the day-to-day operations and overall office experience. You'll manage vendors, run employee engagement events, coordinate onboarding, and serve as a culture champion. Reporting to the Office Management Lead AMER/APAC, you'll also support regional programs and initiatives, with a path to grow into a right-hand role for the broader AMER/APAC workplace strategy.
Responsibilities
- Daily Office Operations — daily inspections, mail/packages, facilities & building management, food/snack/beverage programs
- Vendor & Facilities Management — vendor relationships & contracts, maintenance/repairs, evaluation cadence
- Employee Experience & Onboarding — new hire desk setup/equipment/onboarding, swag programs, first point of contact for employee questions
- Event Programming & Culture — all-hands, holiday parties, team offsites; building an attendance/engagement strategy
Requirements
- 4+ years in Office Management or Workplace Operations (startup/scale-up a plus)
- Tech-savvy: Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, ticketing systems
- Experience with access control & visitor management systems
- Exceptional organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Service-oriented, proactive, discreet, with a positive can-do attitude
- Experience with workplace/space utilization data (Excel, Tableau, Power BI)
- Experience with office build-outs, relocations, or renovations
Benefits
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.
About the Company
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.
Additional Information
PRIVACY POLICY
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- Role:
- Workplace Operations Manager
- Job Type:
- FullTime
Company profile
Mistral
mistral.aiMistral AI SAS is a French artificial intelligence company headquartered in Paris. It builds frontier large language models, AI agents and developer platforms, combining open-weight and commercial models with inference infrastructure, and partners with enterprises and governments in finance, manufacturing, defense, energy and the public sector to create tailored AI systems. Its mission is to make frontier AI open to all. Founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix, Mistral has raised €3 billion in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
- Company Size
- 200 - 500 employees
- Headquarters
- Paris, France
- Founded
- 2023
- Founders
- Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix, Arthur Mensch
- Funding Stage
- Series D