Anti-Corruption & Trade Compliance Legal Counsel

About the role

The Anti-Corruption & Trade Compliance Legal Counsel will play a central role in developing and operating Mistral AI's corporate compliance framework, focusing on anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and export controls. This position involves building core policies, processes, and tools while collaborating cross-functionally with teams such as Finance, Procurement, and Engineering to ensure legal requirements are translated into auditable processes. The role offers the opportunity to manage day-to-day compliance operations and provide advisory support within a dynamic AI environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Sapin II Action Plan deployment and lead risk-based due diligence processes.
• Administer gifts, hospitality, and conflicts-of-interest processes and provide guidance to business teams.
• Collaborate with Finance and Internal Control to define and monitor anti-corruption accounting controls.
• Manage counterparty screening for sanctions and support export control classification of AI models and infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain standard contractual clauses for sanctions and export controls and support their negotiation.
• Monitor regulatory developments and contribute to programme reporting for Legal leadership.

Required skills

• Anti-corruption
• Sapin II
• Economic sanctions
• Export controls
• Compliance
• Corporate law
• Risk assessment

Nice to have

• AI sector experience
• Data privacy
• Semiconductors
• Dual-use goods

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Law, Corporate Law, Compliance, or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in a company, law firm, consulting firm, or regulatory authority

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Parental leave
• Retirement plans
• Relocation support
• Wellness programs
• Meal allowance
• Transportation allowance

About the Company

Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions, ranging from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. The company partners with enterprises across high-stakes industries to co-create customized AI systems.