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About the Role
Perplexity is seeking a commercially minded attorney to manage the full commercial legal lifecycle, including drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements. The role involves building scalable legal infrastructure and advising business teams on AI-specific legal matters, acting as a trusted advisor in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements, including MSAs, SaaS and API agreements, DPAs, partnership and reseller agreements, strategic collaboration and co-marketing agreements, procurement and vendor contracts, technology and infrastructure agreements, and IP licensing arrangements.
- Serve as a primary legal partner across the business, providing fast, practical, and business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity without compromising on risk management.
- Provide strategic counsel on legal risks across AI infrastructure, compute, partnerships, and enterprise deployments as the company scales.
- Advise on AI-specific legal considerations in commercial agreements, including acceptable use, data retention and training restrictions, output liability, and evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR).
- Build and maintain scalable legal infrastructure—contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and tools (e.g., CLM, self-serve workflows)—to support high-volume deal flow and reduce friction in the contracting cycle.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Compliance teams to surface and address legal risk early, particularly on data use, enterprise integrations, and customer-specific compliance requirements.
- Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI and SaaS products and translate emerging requirements into practical contractual and policy guidance for internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- JD and in good standing with an active U.S. state bar membership.
- At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, with a track record of drafting and negotiating complex commercial technology agreements.
- Strong business acumen and ability to partner effectively with sales, product, engineering, and executive teams.
- Deep familiarity with data privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, HIPAA) and experience negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements.
- Prior experience with infrastructure agreements is strongly preferred, including compute procurement (e.g., GPU capacity and cloud/neocloud agreements, colocation, and related SLA and acceptance terms).
- Ability to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences and effectively translate legal concepts for non-lawyers.
- Hands-on attitude to tackle projects large and small, low-ego approach to working across the organization.
- Positive collaborative attitude, comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace, high level of integrity, and intellectual curiosity about AI technology and how these products work.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Skills
- Commercial agreement drafting and negotiation
- MSAs
- SaaS agreements
- API agreements
- DPAs
- Partnership agreements
- Reseller agreements
- Strategic collaboration agreements
- Co-marketing agreements
- Procurement contracts
- Vendor contracts
- Technology agreements
- Infrastructure agreements
- IP licensing
- Data privacy frameworks
- Security frameworks
- GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- SOC 2
- HIPAA
- AI legal considerations
- Contract templates
- Negotiation playbooks
- Fallback positions
- Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- Self-serve workflows
- Regulatory monitoring
- Business acumen
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Communication with technical and business audiences
- Translating legal concepts for non-lawyers
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
- Counsel or Senior Counsel
Education Level
- JD degree
- Active U.S. state bar membership
About the Company
- Perplexity is one of the most consequential AI companies in the world.