AI Strategist, Credit (Legal)

Location: NYC, United States; onsite

Compensation: $200,000–$250,000 OTE, with an 80:20 base-to-performance-bonus split; equity package also available.

Company

Hebbia develops Matrix, an AI platform for investors, bankers, and law firms that supports document analysis and investment and legal decision-making.

What you will do

• Win and grow finance and credit practices at leading law firms in partnership with sales.
• Build and deploy workflows for precedent and market-terms research, markup comparison, issues lists, covenant and definitions analysis, diligence, closing checklists, amendments, refinancings, and liability management transactions.
• Own relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management, and innovation teams.
• Lead demos, pilots, and training; drive adoption and expansion across deal teams, partners, associates, and offices.
• Measure time saved and quality gains on live deals and turn results into case studies.
• Represent finance lawyers in product and engineering discussions and help shape the legal vertical.

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, including 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 decision-making, associate workflows, and practice-group change management.
• Strong communication skills, credibility with partners, and interest in client-facing commercial work.
• Experience with leading LLMs and AI tools, including examples of what you have built, tested, or researched.
• Strong ownership mindset and bias toward action in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO.
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and wellness benefits.
• Catered lunch daily and DoorDash dinner credit.
• Three months of parental leave for non-birthing parents and four months for birthing parents.
• $15,000 lifetime fertility benefit and competitive new-hire equity package.