Perplexity
Commercial Counsel/Senior Counsel
$200K–$290K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York City - Experience
- At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience.
- Education
- JD
About the job
Owns commercial legal work from drafting and negotiating agreements through advising on AI-related risks and building scalable contracting processes.
What you'll do
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial, procurement, infrastructure, partnership, and IP licensing agreements.
- Advise business teams on commercial and AI-specific legal risks, including data use, privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and tools to support high-volume deal flow.
What they ask for
- JD and active U.S. state bar membership in good standing.
- At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience negotiating complex commercial technology agreements.
- Deep familiarity with data privacy and security frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, and HIPAA; experience negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements.
- Strong business acumen and ability to partner with sales, product, engineering, and executive teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure agreements, including compute procurement, GPU capacity, cloud/neocloud agreements, colocation, and related SLA and acceptance terms.
Pay
$200K – $290K (base salary)
Tools
CLM, GPU, cloud/neocloud, SaaS, API, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2
AI focus
Advise on AI-specific contract terms and legal risks, including acceptable use, data retention and training restrictions, output liability, infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and evolving regulation.
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