Perplexity
AI Strategist, Legal
$215K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- 3+ years in legal practice or legal ops/innovation, and 5+ years total experience spanning legal and related technical or customer-facing roles.
About the job
Leads strategic customer engagements with law firms and in-house legal teams, translating legal workflows into AI solutions and driving them from discovery through deployment and expansion.
What you'll do
- Own legal customer discovery, solution scope, success metrics, pilots, commercial structure, and deployment.
- Build workflow-specific demonstrations and prototypes using Perplexity Computer and the API Platform; run customer pilots and evaluations.
- Translate legal workflow needs into product and integration priorities, and lead senior commercial relationships through proposal, pricing, and close.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of direct legal practice or legal operations/innovation experience with deep workflow exposure.
- 5+ years of total experience spanning legal and technical GTM, sales engineering, solutions architecture, AI product strategy, or customer-facing applied AI.
- Deep fluency in legal workflows and ability to turn ambiguous customer needs into scoped deployment plans with clear success metrics.
- Strong commercial, communication, and customer-workstream management skills; able to understand technical systems.
Nice to have
- JD and bar admission.
- Hands-on experience with agentic systems, tool-use workflows, MCP, or LLM APIs; or legal technology platforms such as Westlaw, LexisNexis, iManage, NetDocuments, Relativity, or Ironclad.
Pay
$215K – $250K (base salary)
Tools
Perplexity Computer, API Platform, MCP, LLM APIs, Westlaw, LexisNexis, iManage, NetDocuments
AI focus
Apply agentic AI to legal workflows, including research, contract review, diligence, drafting, discovery summarization, and regulatory monitoring; prototype skills, agents, and connector configurations.
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