Senior Commercial Counsel Enterprise

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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About the Role

You will lead drafting, review, and negotiation of enterprise customer agreements. You will advise commercial stakeholders on AI, data-protection, security, and regulatory matters; maintain negotiation playbooks and contract templates; work with cross-functional partners on legal risk; and represent Legal on customer negotiations.

Requirements

  • JD and active U.S. state bar membership in good standing
  • 7+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience with a substantial in-house component
  • Experience independently owning complex enterprise SaaS or API vendor-side deals
  • Experience with regulated-industry customers
  • Experience with commercial terms and pricing structures for SaaS or API businesses
  • Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, DORA, EU AI Act, and DPAs
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent deals under tight timelines
  • Experience building legal playbooks, templates, precedent repositories, or self-service tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of enterprise customer agreements
  • Advise commercial stakeholders on practical, business-aligned legal matters
  • Maintain negotiation playbooks, privacy architecture, term libraries, and fallback positions
  • Advise on AI-specific contract terms, data practices, output ownership, liability, and agentic-feature risk
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Privacy, Finance, and Compliance to address legal risk
  • Monitor AI, data-protection, and public-sector procurement regulations and update contractual guidance
  • Represent Legal on customer negotiation calls

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter accounts
  • Dependent care accounts