AI Strategist, Legal

Perplexity
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 215,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Communication","Commercial instincts","Ownership","Strategic thinking"]

Own end-to-end strategic engagements for Perplexity’s Applied AI legal vertical, combining legal domain expertise with sales engineering. Lead discovery, define scope and success metrics, and drive pilots through deployment and rollout with real revenue responsibility. Deliver workflow-specific demos using Perplexity Computer and the API Platform, prototype connector/agent configurations, and translate customer practice workflows into product and roadmap priorities.

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Perplexity
Perplexity
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AI Strategist, Legal

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end strategic engagements for Perplexity’s Applied AI legal vertical, combining legal domain expertise with sales engineering. Lead discovery, define scope and success metrics, and drive pilots through deployment and rollout with real revenue responsibility. Deliver workflow-specific demos using Perplexity Computer and the API Platform, prototype connector/agent configurations, and translate customer practice workflows into product and roadmap priorities.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead discovery with law firms and in-house legal departments to identify problems worth automating and define the scope.
  • •Own success metrics, pilot design, and commercial structure, driving deployments and rollouts across practice groups with revenue responsibility.
  • •Build and deliver workflow-specific demos (legal research, contract review, due diligence, drafting, deposition/discovery summarization, regulatory monitoring).
  • •Prototype workflows, skills, and connector configurations in Perplexity Computer and the API Platform; run pilots and evaluations.
  • •Translate real legal processes into product and integration priorities, codify repeatable engagement patterns, and manage end-to-end sales motions from qualification through close.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 215,000 - 250,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of direct experience practicing law (litigation, transactional, or regulatory) or legal ops/legal innovation with deep workflow exposure, including diligence and drafting/negotiating agreements.
  • •5+ years total experience spanning legal plus technical GTM, sales engineering, solutions architecture, AI product strategy, or applied AI with customer exposure.
  • •Deep fluency in legal workflows including research, contract review, diligence, drafting, discovery, regulatory analysis, and matter management.
  • •Strong intuition for AI products, agents, and workflows, with the ability to understand technical systems.
  • •Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped, executable deployment plans with clear success metrics.
Experience:LegalSales engineeringAI
Skills:CommunicationCommercial instinctsOwnershipStrategic thinking
Tech Stack:Perplexity ComputerAPI PlatformAPILLM APIsMCPConnector configurationsWestlawLexisNexisIManageNetDocumentsRelativityIronclad

Company Brief

Perplexity
Perplexity AI provides an AI-powered answer engine that returns conversational, citation-backed answers to user queries and offers Pro/Enterprise products and APIs for research, knowledge work, and search augmentation.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 50M to 100M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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