Litigation Paralegal

Perplexity AI is looking for a highly organised and resourceful Litigation Paralegal to serve as the operational backbone of a fast-moving, high-stakes litigation docket, with a particular focus on eDiscovery and related processes.

This role reports to the Senior Counsel, Litigation and offers significant responsibility, direct exposure to novel questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law, and growth potential across other areas of an in-house practice group.

You’ll partner closely with outside counsel, eDiscovery vendors, and internal Engineering, Security, and IT stakeholders to run preservation, collection, review, and production workstreams across a growing portfolio of matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage eDiscovery workflows end to end across multiple matters, including issuing and tracking legal hold notices, maintaining custodian lists and acknowledgments, coordinating custodian interviews, and overseeing collection, processing, review, and production.
• Serve as day-to-day point of contact for eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, including scoping engagements and statements of work, tracking data volumes and hosting costs, reviewing invoices, and holding vendors to agreed rates and service levels.
• Support attorneys with case management, including maintaining internal file management systems, organising case files and pleadings, docketing and tracking key deadlines and hearing dates, and updating internal stakeholders on matter progress.
• Own intake for new matters and third-party legal requests, including logging, triaging, and routing each matter to the right attorney with a clear summary of the claim, the requester, the matter type, and any immediate deadlines.
• Process and coordinate timely, accurate responses to subpoenas, summonses, preservation demands, litigation hold requests, and other third-party legal requests, working from templates and escalation protocols and escalating complex or sensitive matters as needed.
• Help manage outside counsel relationships and billing records, including matter budgets, accrual tracking, invoice review against Outside Counsel Guidelines, and matter-management hygiene in our billing systems.
• Build and improve the systems behind the work, including intake workflows, response playbooks, matter templates, trackers, escalation paths, and preservation checklists, so that recurring problems are solved structurally rather than absorbed by heroics.
• Support broader litigation and legal-operations projects, including tool implementations, vendor evaluations, and policy rollouts, and assist as needed with other organisational and administrative tasks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a paralegal, legal assistant, or litigation coordinator at a law firm or in-house legal department
• Deep understanding of civil litigation matters, from inception through resolution
• Hands-on experience supporting eDiscovery processes across the EDRM lifecycle, including legal holds and document preservation, collection, processing, review, and production
• Experience working directly with eDiscovery and litigation-support vendors, including scoping statements of work, tracking budgets, and reviewing invoices
• Experience managing a high volume of concurrent matters and deadlines with strong organisational skills and exacting attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced startup environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to correspond directly with outside counsel, vendors, and opposing counsel and to calibrate tone for sensitive or adversarial situations
• Demonstrated discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential and privileged material

Compensation

• $120K – $195K • Offers Equity

Benefits

• Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.