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      <Title>Commercial Counsel</Title>
      <Description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Compensation</strong></p>
<p>$200K – $265K • Offers Equity</p>
<p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Provide strategic counsel on legal risks across AI infrastructure, compute, partnerships, and enterprise deployments as the company scales.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI and SaaS products and translate emerging requirements into practical contractual and policy guidance for internal stakeholders.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p>
<p>JD and in good standing with an active U.S. state bar membership.</p>
<p>At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, with a track record of drafting and negotiating complex commercial technology agreements.</p>
<p>Strong business acumen and ability to partner effectively with sales, product, engineering, and executive teams.</p>
<p>Deep familiarity with data privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, HIPAA) and experience negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements.</p>
<p>Ability to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences and effectively translate legal concepts for non-lawyers.</p>
<p>Hands-on attitude to tackle projects large and small, low-ego approach to working across the organization.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.</p>
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      <Jobtype>Full time</Jobtype>
      <Experiencelevel>senior</Experiencelevel>
      <Workarrangement>hybrid</Workarrangement>
      <Salaryrange>$200K – $265K</Salaryrange>
      <Skills>JD, data privacy and security frameworks, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, HIPAA, negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements, communicating clearly with business and technical audiences, translating 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, intellectual curiosity about AI technology and how these products work</Skills>
      <Category>Legal</Category>
      <Industry>Technology</Industry>
      <Employername>Perplexity</Employername>
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      <Employerdescription>Perplexity is an AI company that operates at the frontier of this technology.</Employerdescription>
      <Employerwebsite>https://perplexity.com</Employerwebsite>
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      <Location>San Francisco; New York City</Location>
      <Country></Country>
      <Postedate>2026-04-24</Postedate>
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