Recruitment Ops Manager, Mistral AI
Offers equity (stock-options)
Visa sponsorship available
3+ days a week in office
Generative AI model developers
Job no longer available
Generative AI model developers
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Offers equity (stock-options)
Visa sponsorship available
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make frontier AI ubiquitous, and to provide tailor-made AI to all the builders.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of process, technology, and people—someone who loves solving operational challenges and driving continuous improvement
- 7+ years of professional experience, including ideally 2+ years of experience in recruitment operations, talent acquisition, or HR operations
- Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Lever, Workday) and recruitment CRMs
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, Power BI)
- Deeply technical and Process-oriented mindset with a track record of improving efficiency and scalability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Experience in a high-growth startup or tech company
- Familiarity with global hiring and multi-country compliance
- Problem-solving: Ability to diagnose issues and implement practical solutions
- Collaboration: Comfortable working with diverse teams and influencing without authority
- Detail-oriented: Meticulous about process, data, and compliance
What the job involves
- As Recruitment Operations Manager, you will be the backbone of our talent acquisition function, ensuring our hiring processes are scalable, efficient, and aligned with business goals. You will own the recruitment infrastructure, tools, and workflows, enabling our team to attract and hire top talent at scale
- Design, implement, and refine end-to-end recruitment workflows to improve efficiency, reduce time-to-hire, and enhance candidate experience
- Identify bottlenecks and pain points in the hiring process, proposing and implementing solutions
- Standardize and document recruitment policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Own the recruitment tech stack (ATS, CRM, sourcing tools, etc.), ensuring seamless integration, adoption, and optimization
- Partner with IT and vendors to evaluate, select, and deploy new tools or features
- Train and support hiring teams on tool usage, data hygiene, and reporting.
- Develop and maintain dashboards to track key recruitment metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source effectiveness, diversity metrics).Provide actionable insights to leadership and hiring managers to inform hiring strategies
- Conduct regular audits to ensure data accuracy and compliance.
- Act as a liaison between Talent Acquisition, HR, Finance, and hiring managers to align on hiring priorities and resource allocation
- Partner with legal and compliance teams to ensure adherence to labor laws and company policies.
- Map and improve the candidate journey, from application to onboarding, to ensure a positive and consistent experience
- Gather and analyze candidate feedback to drive process improvements.
- Lead cross-functional projects (e.g., ATS migrations, process automation, global hiring expansion)
- Manage relationships with external vendors (e.g., background check providers, job boards, recruitment agencies)
Our take
Founded by Facebook AI researchers, Mistral AI focuses on developing open-source generative AI models to "make AI useful." It emerged in early 2023, quickly achieving a $260 million valuation.
Mistral features up to 176 billion parameters, and its open-source nature has sparked concerns about potential misuse. However, Mistral remains a formidable competitor in the AI landscape, challenging models from Google and Meta.
In 2025, Mistral secured a massive €1.7 billion funding round, raising its valuation to €11.7 billion. This Series B funding, led by European chip firm ASML, underscores significant interest in alternatives to ChatGPT and a push away from Silicon Valley dependence by European AI competitors.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$2.0bn
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$552.3m
SERIES B
Total funding: $3.2bn
Company benefits
- Competitive bonus structure
- Equity
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Company HQ
Villette, Paris, France
Leadership
Timothee Lacroix
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously PhD and Software Engineer Intern at Facebook and Visiting Undergraduate at CAlab UCSD
Guillaume Lample
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)Research Student and Scientist at Facebook AI and Research Intern at Jane Street Capital
Arthur Mensch
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind, Post-doc researcher at École normale supérieure, Visiting Researcher at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and PhD Student at Inria
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