AI Strategist, Legal

Perplexity is building the AI platform for professional legal work, including Perplexity Computer and API Platform. As an AI Strategist on the Applied AI team focused on the legal vertical, you are the subject matter expert who makes this real for legal professionals.

Responsibilities:

• OWN STRATEGIC LEGAL ENGAGEMENTS: Lead discovery with law firms and in-house legal departments, define scope, and own success metrics, pilot design, and commercial structure.
• BE THE DEMO AND TECHNICAL PROOF ENGINE: Build and deliver compelling, workflow-specific demonstrations, prototype workflows, skills, and connector configurations.
• BRING DOMAIN JUDGMENT TO THE PRODUCT: Translate how practice groups, legal departments, and legal ops teams actually work into product, connector, and data-partnership priorities.
• OPERATE AS THE COMMERCIAL LEAD: Own senior relationships with partners, general counsel, and legal-innovation leaders; move engagements through qualification, scoping, proposal, pricing, legal, and close.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of direct experience practicing law at a leading firm or in-house.
• 5+ years of total experience spanning legal and some combination of technical GTM, sales engineering, solutions architecture, AI product strategy, or applied AI with customer exposure.
• Deep fluency in legal workflows: research, contract review, diligence, drafting, discovery, regulatory analysis, and matter management.
• Strong intuition for AI products, agents, and workflows.

Nice-to-haves:

• JD and bar admission.
• Hands-on experience building with agentic systems, tool-use workflows, MCP, or LLM APIs.
• Working knowledge of legal technology platforms: Westlaw, LexisNexis, iManage, NetDocuments, Relativity, Ironclad, or similar.