AI Strategist, LegalActive$215K–$250K

Perplexity
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The opportunity

Perplexity is building the AI platform for professional legal work: Perplexity Computer, our agentic platform that navigates tools, completes multi-step workflows, and connects to the case law, statutes, filings, contracts, and internal documents that legal professionals already…

What you'll do

  • Lead discovery with law firms and in-house legal departments: what matters to the practice, what problems they are solving, and which workflows are worth automating

  • Define scope—what is the right thing to build—and own success metrics, pilot design, and commercial structure

  • Drive deployment and rollout across practice groups and legal departments,: with real revenue responsibility alongside Sales

  • Build and deliver compelling, workflow-specific demonstrations: legal research, contract review and analysis, due diligence, drafting, deposition and discovery summarization, regulatory monitoring

  • Prototype workflows, skills, and connector configurations hands-on in: Perplexity Computer and the API Platform to prove value in the customer's own use cases

  • Run pilots and evaluations that hold up to scrutiny from skeptical partners and general counsel

What they're looking for

  • + years of direct experience practicing law at a leading firm or: in-house—litigation, transactional, or regulatory—or in legal ops / legal innovation with deep workflow exposure; you have run diligence, drafted and negotiated agreements, and lived the workflows you will now automate
  • + 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, with the ability to: understand technical systems without needing every detail pre-digested
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous customer problems into scoped,: executable deployment plans with clear success metrics
  • Strong commercial instincts and comfort operating with partners, general: counsel, CIOs, and heads of innovation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to write proposals, customer: memos, technical scopes, and launch narratives
  • High agency and low ego, with the ability to run multiple complex customer: workstreams in parallel and make progress before the playbook exists