Senior Commercial Counsel, EnterpriseNew$200K–$290K

Perplexity is looking for a senior commercial attorney to join our Legal team. We are looking for an independent, business-practical yet diligent-minded professional who can carry live deals, extend the infrastructure we have already built, and hold the line on the terms that…

What you'll do

• Independently lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of Enterprise: customer agreements across our suite of offerings: Enterprise Pro, Enterprise Max, Computer, and API product lines, including MSAs, order forms, SaaS and API terms, DPAs, BAAs, security exhibits, customer-paper redlines, product-specific addenda, and public-sector vehicles such as GSA MAS orders and federal RFP responses.

• Serve as a trusted legal partner to Enterprise Sales, Partnerships, Deal: Desk, and Customer Success, providing fast, practical, business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity, protects the terms that matter, and scales as the Sales organization grows.

• Extend and maintain the existing Enterprise negotiation playbook, DPA and: Privacy Notice architecture, product-specific term libraries, and fallback positions as our product surface, customer mix, and regulatory environment evolve, so that positions compound into reusable precedent rather than being re-litigated deal by deal.

• Advise on AI-specific contract terms for enterprise deployments, including: bespoke data postures; negotiate output ownership and liability, agentic-feature risk allocation and translate product operations into enterprise contract commitments.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Privacy,: Finance, and Compliance to surface and address legal risk early, particularly on customer-data flows, enterprise integrations, model routing, and customer-specific compliance requirements.

• Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI, data protection,: and public-sector procurement (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, DORA, EU AI Act, sector-specific frameworks) and translate emerging requirements into practical contractual positions and updated playbook guidance.

What they're looking for

• JD and in good standing with an active U.S. state bar membership.
• At least 7+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience, with a: substantial in-house component, and a demonstrated track record of independently owning complex enterprise SaaS or API deals from the vendor side, including work with regulated-industry customers (financial services, healthcare, or government).
• Experience advising on commercial terms and pricing structures for: high‑growth SaaS/API businesses, including usage‑based and tiered pricing, pilots, and expansion frameworks.
• Familiarity with data protection and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA,: DORA, EU AI Act) and hands-on experience negotiating DPAs.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to partner effectively with Sales,: Deal Desk, Product, Security, and executive stakeholders on live deals under time pressure.
• Proven ability to triage and progress multiple concurrent deals under tight: timelines while maintaining rigorous diligence, clear risk assessment, and high‑quality documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to build and extend durable legal infrastructure: playbooks, templates, precedent repositories, or self-serve tools.
• Ability to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences and to: translate legal concepts into usable guidance for non-lawyers, including Sales and Deal Desk.