Product Designer - Observability

  Role Summary   At Mistral, we’re not just designing products—we’re designing for positive outcomes, building AI that feels human, intuitive, and delightful. If you’re a designer at heart—independent, craft-obsessed, and excited to define the future of AI—let’s talk.

About Observability & AI Studio

We’re assembling our founding design team to redefine Observability for AI Studio—Mistral’s platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI applications. Observability isn’t just about monitoring; it’s about empowering developers, SREs, and platform engineers to understand, debug, and optimize their AI workloads with confidence and speed. If you’re a designer who thrives at the intersection of complex data, intuitive interfaces, and AI-assisted workflows, and you want to shape how the world observes and troubleshoots AI systems, let’s talk.   What you will do

• Design end-to-end experiences for Observability within AI Studio, from onboarding to advanced features.
• Prototype, iterate, and ship—fast. You’ll be hands-on, turning ideas into tangible experiences.
• Collaborate deeply with research, engineering, and product teams. Clear communication and a low ego are key.
• Contribute to our design system, ensuring consistency and craft (including motion design) across Mistral’s products.

Required Qualifications  

• 7+ years of product design experience, with a focus on documentation, developer tools, or technical communication.
• Deeply curious about how people learn and use complex products. You ask “why?” until you understand the root problem.
• Systems thinker: You can design for scalability, consistency, and maintainability across a growing suite of products.
• UI/UX savvy: You understand how to design intuitive, user-friendly documentation interfaces, from layout to interaction.
• Visual communicator: You’re comfortable creating or art-directing graphics, diagrams, and other visual aids to simplify complex ideas (using tools like Figma, Illustrator, or AI-assisted design).
• Collaborative and proactive: You thrive in cross-functional teams and can drive projects forward with minimal oversight.
• Experience with:
  • Designing developer-facing documentation (APIs, SDKs, tutorials, or technical guides).
  • Technical writing or content design (a plus if you’ve worked with Markdown, Docusaurus, or similar tools).
  • AI/ML concepts (familiarity with model deployment, inference, or cloud services is a bonus).
• Clear, concise, and empathetic communicator—you can explain technical topics to both experts and newcomers.

Joining our design team

• Founding team: Help build the culture, processes, and design language that will define Mistral’s infrastructure and Studio products for years.

• Designing for good: Shape how the world interacts with AI and cloud computing—focusing on sovereignty, transparency, and user empowerment.

• Zero-to-one impact: Design products from scratch, not incremental tweaks.

• Builder energy: We’re all makers at heart, focused on shipping great experiences, not politics.

Our hiring process

1. Portfolio review: Show us explorations and delivered work—we care about how you think, not just how it looks.
2. Take-home challenge: A product-focused design exercise to see how you tackle problems.
3. Team interviews: Chat with design, engineering, and leadership. We’re looking for collaborators, not egos.
4. Culture fit: We want people who want to be here—who see Mistral as more than a job, but as a place to do their best work.

Next steps?

Let’s build the future of Observability for Mistral Studio together! 🚀