AI Strategist, Credit (Legal)

Hebbia AI • New York, NY

9d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Hebbia is hiring an AI Strategist focused on credit to help leading law firms apply its AI platform, Matrix, to finance and credit transactions. The role is intended for a former finance lawyer who can speak the practice’s language, own relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, and innovation teams, and help firms deploy Hebbia across deal teams and establish it as a firm-wide standard. The strategist will partner with sales to win and expand law firm accounts, develop workflows for credit transactions, demonstrate value on live deals, inform product development, and help build Hebbia’s legal vertical. The position offers a combined base and performance bonus compensation range of $200,000–$250,000 (OTE), split 80:20, and eligibility for an equity package. The range covers multiple career levels and may be adjusted based on candidate qualifications.

Requirements

• JD or equivalent law degree from an accredited law school.
• 2–6 years of experience in a credit-focused transactional practice at a leading law firm. Relevant practices include leveraged and acquisition finance, banking and finance, private credit and direct lending, fund finance, structured finance, restructuring, and debt capital markets.
• Hands-on experience running credit transactions, including drafting and negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor agreements, and related documents.
• Understanding of how law firms work, including partner decision-making, associate workloads, and challenges driving change within a practice group.
• Strong communication skills and credibility with partners, with energy for client-facing commercial work.
• Experience with leading LLMs and AI tools; candidates should be able to discuss what they have built, tested, or researched.
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward action in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on both lender-side and sponsor-side deals.
• Knowledge management, legal innovation, or legal technology experience.
• Business development, client relationship, or sales experience.
• Startup or founder experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the sales team to win finance and credit practices at leading law firms and drive adoption and expansion across partners, associates, and offices.
• Build and deploy Hebbia workflows for precedent and market-terms research across a firm’s deal history; reviewing and comparing lender and sponsor markups; issues lists and covenant and definitions analysis; diligence and closing checklists; and amendments, refinancings, and liability management transactions.
• Build relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management teams, and innovation teams.
• Lead demonstrations, pilots, and training to encourage adoption.
• Quantify time savings and quality improvements on live deals, and develop case studies to support expansion to other practice groups and firms.
• Represent finance lawyers’ needs to product and engineering teams and define product capabilities for credit transactions.
• Help shape how Hebbia goes to market with law firms and contribute to building the legal vertical team.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Wellness benefits.
• Catered lunch daily.
• DoorDash dinner credit.
• Parental leave: 3 months for non-birthing parents and 4 months for birthing parents.
• Fertility benefits with a $15,000 lifetime benefit.
• Competitive new-hire equity package.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree