Perplexity

Product Manager, Legal

San Francisco. Posted 3 days ago

The role

You will own the Legal product vertical at Perplexity, from roadmap to launch. You will build workflows for litigators, transactional counsel and in-house legal teams.

What you will do

  • Own the Legal vertical roadmap end-to-end, covering litigation research, M&A diligence, contract review and drafting, and in-house legal workflows.
  • Build legal product surfaces such as multi-document review tables, inline citations with source verification, and redlining and document comparison.
  • Work with Business Development and Engineering to add legal research sources and connectors to DMS, VDR, CLM, e-discovery and practice management systems.
  • Design legal Skills, Plugins, Teammates and onboarding that load a firm's clause playbooks and precedent templates.
  • Work with AI Research and Engineering to build legal benchmarks and evaluations for citation fidelity, retrieval recall and redline quality.
  • Co-design with law firms and corporate legal teams, and join customer calls to turn blockers into shipped product.
  • Partner with Sales, Applied AI and Product Marketing on demos, case studies and growth loops.

Required qualifications

  • 1 to 4+ years of product management, founding or early-stage product building, forward-deployed product or solutions work, or a high-intensity analytical or operating role, with hands-on product shipp
  • AI-native builder who actively builds with LLMs and agents, including prompts, Skills, workflow prototypes and evaluations.
  • Analytical and data-fluent, comfortable writing SQL and pairing metrics with user research.
  • Strong written and verbal communication.
  • High-ownership operator who can work in a small, agile, low-ego team.

Nice to have

  • Experience at a legal AI, legal tech, e-discovery, CLM or vertical enterprise AI company, or working directly with law firms and legal departments.
  • Familiarity with legal workflows and tools such as cite-checking (Shepard's/KeyCite), virtual data rooms, redlining playbooks, DMS/CLM integrations or Microsoft Office add-ins.
  • Technical foundation in CS, engineering, data science or dual technical and business training, with comfort reading API documentation and system architectures.

Before you apply

  • No JD or formal legal degree is required, but curiosity about how legal professionals work is essential.
  • Your application should highlight a product, workflow or agent system you have built, or a specific legal problem you believe AI can solve.

About the company

Perplexity launched Computer in 2026, an agentic AI product. Thousands of attorneys, Am Law firms and corporate legal teams already use Perplexity every week.

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