AI Strategist, Credit (Legal)

Hebbia AI • New York, NY

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About The Position

Hebbia is hiring an AI Strategist focused on credit to help leading law firms use its Matrix AI platform in finance and credit practices. The role is designed for a former finance lawyer who understands credit transactions and law-firm workflows. The strategist will own relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management teams, and innovation teams; demonstrate how Hebbia can improve credit transaction work; and support adoption and expansion across deal teams and offices. The role also involves measuring the impact of the platform on live deals, sharing results that support further adoption, and shaping product development in collaboration with product and engineering. As an early member of Hebbia’s legal vertical, the strategist will help develop the company’s approach to serving law firms and contribute to growing the team.

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 practice experience in areas such as leveraged and acquisition finance, banking and finance, private credit and direct lending, fund finance, structured finance, restructuring, or debt capital markets.
• Hands-on experience running credit transactions, including drafting and negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor agreements, and related documents.
• Understanding of law-firm operations, including partner decision-making, associate workflows, and the challenges of driving change within a practice group.
• Strong communication skills, credibility with partners, and enthusiasm for client-facing commercial work.
• Experience with leading LLMs and AI tools, with examples of work built, tested, or researched.
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward action in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience 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 credit transaction work, including precedent and market-terms research, markup comparison, issues lists, covenant and definitions analysis, diligence and closing checklists, amendments, refinancings, and liability management transactions.
• Develop relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management teams, and innovation teams.
• Lead demonstrations, pilots, and training sessions to build support for Hebbia among law-firm users.
• Measure time saved and quality gained on live deals, and develop case studies to support expansion to additional practice groups and firms.
• Represent finance lawyers’ needs to product and engineering teams and help define product capabilities for credit transactions.
• Help shape Hebbia’s go-to-market approach for law firms and contribute to growing the legal vertical team.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

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