Staff AI Deployment Strategist - DACH

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. The Role   As Staff AI Deployment Strategist , you will shape how some of the most ambitious enterprises in the DACH region adopt frontier AI at scale. This is a senior, high-impact role at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution. You will work directly on Mistral’s most strategic opportunities and largest deliveries, helping customers move from ambition to measurable business outcomes. You will frame complex AI transformation programs, turn executive priorities into actionable roadmaps, and ensure that Mistral delivers systems that are valuable, scalable, and trusted. You will also act as a senior sponsor on our most critical customer programs, bringing judgment, structure, and delivery excellence to high-stakes engagements. Your mandate is to raise the ambition and quality of AI adoption: helping customers identify where AI can create step-change value, making the right trade-offs, and ensuring that execution matches the strategic promise. This role is ideal for an experienced strategy consultant, transformation leader, or senior operator who wants to move from advising on change to building it directly with frontier AI technology.   What You Will Do   • Shape high-impact AI transformations • Partner closely with Mistral’s Sales leadership in DACH to qualify opportunities, align on account strategy, and drive executive engagement. • Work with senior customer stakeholders to identify where frontier AI can create material business value. • Structure complex opportunities into clear, credible, and executable transformation programs. • Translate strategic ambition into delivery roadmaps, success metrics, and operating plans. • Help customers make the right trade-offs between ambition, feasibility, speed, and long-term scalability. • Sponsor Mistral’s most strategic deliveries • Act as a senior sponsor on the largest and most complex customer programs, primarily in DACH and potentially cross-region as priorities evolve. • Ensure delivery quality, executive alignment, and measurable business impact. • Anticipate risks, unblock decisions, and help teams navigate ambiguity in high-stakes environments. • Bring senior judgment to moments where scope, resources, timelines, or expected value need to be clarified. • Build repeatable deployment excellence • Turn lessons from strategic engagements into reusable approaches, playbooks, and patterns. • Raise the bar for how AI programs are qualified, framed, delivered, and scaled. • Act as a senior relay for the Solutions organization in the region, helping teams adopt shared best practices, adapt them thoughtfully to local market specificities when needed, and strengthen the quality of execution. • Work hand in hand with Solutions leadership to connect customer realities, delivery patterns, and field feedback into practical ways of improving how Mistral deploys AI. • Help codify what great enterprise AI deployment looks like across industries and use cases. • Contribute to a Solutions culture that combines strategic clarity, technical depth, and strong execution. • Develop and multiply senior DS i