Legal AI Strategist & Enterprise Solutions Architect

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is an AI-powered platform building an AI-driven workflow engine for the legal sector. The AI Strategist on the Applied AI team will own strategic customer engagements end to end—leading discovery, defining build scope, demonstrating frontier capabilities against real legal workflows, and driving deployments from first conversation through production and expansion.

You will sit with partners, associates, and counsel, translating their workflows into custom skills and connectors, while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of direct experience practicing law at a leading firm or in-house.
• 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

Responsibilities

• Own strategic legal engagements: lead discovery with law firms and in-house legal departments, define scope, and own success metrics.
• Be the demo and technical proof engine: build and deliver workflow-specific demos and prototype workflows hands-on.
• Bring domain judgment to the product: translate practice workflows into product and data-priority decisions.
• Operate as the commercial lead: manage senior relationships and drive engagements through qualification, scoping, pricing, and close

Skills

Legal tech familiarity

Communication skills

Problem solving

Job description

Perplexity is an AI-powered platform building an AI-driven workflow engine for the legal sector. The AI Strategist on the Applied AI team will own strategic customer engagements end to end—leading discovery, defining build scope, demonstrating frontier capabilities against real legal workflows, and driving deployments from first conversation through production and expansion.

You will sit with partners, associates, and counsel, translating their workflows into custom skills and connectors, while