AI Strategist, Legal

Perplexity California, United States of America
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Qualifications:

  • 3+ 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
  • 5+ 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

Nice-to-Haves:

  • 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, including outside-counsel guidelines, privilege, and security review
  • Founder or early-startup operating experience
  • Strong network across AmLaw 100 firms and Fortune 500 legal departments If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every qualification listed above.