Director, Commercial Legal (Enterprise)

Perplexity AI is looking for a Director, Commercial Legal (Enterprise) to be a key legal partner to our growing enterprise business. In this role, you'll own the full commercial legal lifecycle for Perplexity Enterprise Pro and API customers from negotiating and closing complex enterprise agreements to building the scalable legal infrastructure that enables us to move fast without unnecessary risk.

You'll work closely with our enterprise sales, GTM, security, and product teams to close deals, strengthen our data security and compliance contracting posture, and serve as a trusted advisor on the AI-specific legal questions that come with operating at the frontier of this technology. The ideal candidate brings deep experience negotiating enterprise SaaS and API agreements, a strong command of data privacy and security frameworks, and the practical judgment to make principled risk calls independently.

This is a high-impact, hands-on role for a commercially minded attorney who thrives in fast-paced environments, knows how to be a true partner to sales without being a bottleneck, and is excited to help build a best-in-class legal function at one of the most consequential AI companies in the world.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements for Perplexity Enterprise Pro and API customers, including MSAs, Order Forms, SaaS subscription agreements, API terms, DPAs, BAAs, and NDAs with the experience to own deals from initial redline to signature.

- Serve as the primary legal partner to enterprise sales and GTM teams, providing fast, practical, and business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity without compromising on risk management.

- Advance Perplexity's compliance and data security contracting posture including negotiating data processing agreements, security addenda, and responding to customer security and compliance questionnaires in close partnership with the Security and Privacy teams.

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