VP, Production Platform

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 the Vice President of our Production Platform organization, you will own how reliably Mistral runs in production and how fast every Mistral engineer ships. This role combines deep infrastructure expertise with organizational leadership to build a platform that scales ahead of the company. Production Platform brings together around 55 engineers across site reliability, deployment, build and CI, and our internal service framework, led by strong team leads. Every deploy and every model release goes through this organization, from our own cloud to the major hyperscalers, private clouds and our customers’ on-premise environments. You will set the strategy for the organization, grow its leaders and shape the organization as it scales. The role is key to the reliability of our products, the velocity of our engineering and research teams, and our ability to deliver Mistral wherever our customers need it. What You Will Do - Lead the Production Platform organization through its Engineering Managers, and grow them as leaders. - Set the strategy and roadmap for reliability, deployment, build and CI, and the internal service framework. - Own the reliability of our production environment: SLOs, on-call, incident management and capacity. - Make delivery to every environment, from SaaS to