AI Strategist, Legal

The role

You will lead strategic legal engagements by conducting discovery and defining what to build for law firms and in-house legal teams. You will build demonstrations, prototype workflows, and drive deployments of the Perplexity platform.

What you will do

• Lead discovery with law firms and in-house legal departments
• Define scope, success metrics, pilot design, and commercial structure
• Drive deployment and rollout across practice groups and legal departments
• Build and deliver workflow-specific demonstrations
• Prototype workflows, skills, and connector configurations in Perplexity Computer and the API Platform
• Run pilots and evaluations
• Translate legal workflows into product, connector, and data-partnership priorities
• Assess research, contract, docket, and document-management integrations
• Codify repeatable engagement patterns
• Own senior relationships with partners, general counsel, and legal-innovation leaders

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of direct experience practicing law at a leading firm or in-house or in legal ops / legal innovation
• 5+ years of total experience spanning legal and some combination of technical GTM, sales engineering, solutions architecture, AI product strategy, or applied AI
• Deep fluency in legal workflows: research, contract review, diligence, drafting, discovery, regulatory analysis, and matter management
• Strong intuition for AI products, agents, and workflows
• Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped, executable deployment plans
• Strong commercial instincts and comfort operating with partners, general counsel, CIOs, and heads of innovation
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• High agency and low ego

Nice to have

• 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
• Experience selling or deploying technology into law firms or regulated enterprises
• Founder or early-startup operating experience
• Strong network across AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 legal departments

About the company

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022. The company aims to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI.