Perplexity
Commercial Counsel/Senior Counsel
San Francisco, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will own the full commercial legal lifecycle by drafting, negotiating, and closing various agreements. You will work with product, engineering, security, finance, and sales teams to provide counsel on AI-specific legal questions and build scalable legal infrastructure.
What you will do
- Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements.
- Serve as a primary legal partner across the business.
- Provide strategic counsel on legal risks across AI infrastructure, compute, partnerships, and enterprise deployments.
- Advise on AI-specific legal considerations in commercial agreements.
- Build and maintain scalable legal infrastructure including templates and playbooks.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Compliance teams.
- Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI and SaaS products.
Required qualifications
- JD and in good standing with an active U.S. state bar membership.
- At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience.
- Track record of drafting and negotiating complex commercial technology agreements.
- Strong business acumen and ability to partner effectively with sales, product, engineering, and executive teams.
- Deep familiarity with data privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, HIPAA).
- Experience negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements.
- Ability to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences.
- Hands-on attitude to tackle projects large and small.
- Low-ego approach to working across the organization.
- Positive collaborative attitude, comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace, high level of integrity, and intellectual curiosity about AI technology.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Nice to have
- Prior experience with infrastructure agreements, including compute procurement (e.g., GPU capacity and cloud/neocloud agreements, colocation, and related SLA and acceptance terms).
About the company
Perplexity is one of the most consequential AI companies in the world.