Defense Success Manager, France

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 a Defense Success Manager, you own what happens to our most strategic defense and sovereign accounts after the build: you make deployed AI stick in real workflows — often in restricted or disconnected environments — keep production commitments healthy, defend renewals, and source the expansion signals that Sales closes. Mistral's Solutions teams (Deployment Strategists and Forward Deployed Engineers) co-create high-value AI use cases with customers in these environments. Your job is to make those investments successful beyond delivery — adopting what has been built, operating it with confidence, demonstrating its impact, and scaling value across the institution. You will work with mission owners, program stakeholders, end users, security and IT teams, and across Mistral with Solutions, Product, Engineering and Support. This is not a high-volume, ticket-queue customer success role. Portfolios are small and deep — typically one or two flagship accounts plus a small number of adjacent programs. It calls for a strategic account mindset, the technical judgment to navigate complex and constrained deployment environments, and the energy to build the customer success function as Mistral grows. Travel to customer sites, including secure facilities, is a regular part of the job. You will join