Hebbia AI

AI Strategist, Credit (Legal) at Hebbia AI (New York, NY)

Hebbia AI· New York, NY·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

About Hebbia

The AI platform for investors and bankers that generates alpha and drives upside. Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $30 trillion in assets globally.

We do not just streamline workflows. We transform how capital is deployed, how risk is managed, and how value is created across markets, and increasingly, how the law firms behind those deals get them done.

About the Role

The finance groups at leading law firms sit at the center of every leveraged buyout, private credit deal, and refinancing our investor clients do. They’re also buried in documents: precedent credit agreements, rounds of lender and sponsor comments, diligence, and closing deliverables. As an AI Strategist focused on credit, you’ll be the former finance lawyer who walks into a law firm and speaks the practice’s language. You’ll own the relationship with finance partners, practice group leaders, and innovation teams. You’ll show them how Hebbia changes the way they run credit transactions, deploy it across their deal teams, and grow it into a firm-wide standard. You’ve lived the 2 a.m. markup and the precedent hunt. Now you’ll help fix them.

Responsibilities

  • Win and grow law firm accounts: Partner with our sales team to land finance and credit practices at leading firms, then drive adoption and expansion across partners, associates, and offices.
  • Own the credit transaction use case: Build and deploy Hebbia workflows for the work finance lawyers actually do, including:
  • precedent and market-terms research across a firm’s deal history
  • reviewing and comparing lender and sponsor markups
  • issues lists and covenant / definitions analysis
  • diligence and closing checklists
  • amendments, refinancings, and liability management transactions
  • Be the trusted advisor: Build relationships with finance partners, practice group leaders, knowledge management, and innovation teams. Lead demos, pilots, and trainings that turn skeptics into champions.
  • Prove the ROI: Quantify time saved and quality gained on live deals, and turn wins into case studies that open the next practice group and the next firm.
  • Shape the product: Bring the voice of the finance lawyer to product and engineering. Define what Hebbia needs to become the standard tool for credit transactions.
  • Help build the team: Be an early member of our legal vertical, with the chance to shape how we go to market with law firms and grow the team around you.

Who You Are

  • A 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 & 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.
  • You understand how law firms work: how partners make decisions, how associates spend their time, and why change is hard to drive in a practice group.
  • Strong communicator, credible in a room of partners, and energized by client-facing, commercial work.
  • Experience with leading LLMs and AI tools. We want to hear what you’ve built, tested, or researched.
  • Strong ownership mindset and a bias toward action in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Bonus

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

Compensation

The combined base + bonus compensation range (OTE) for this role is $200,000 – $250,000, with an 80:20 split between base and performance bonus. This role is also eligible for a competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential. This range is inclusive of several career levels at Hebbia and will be narrowed during the interview process based on the candidate’s experience and qualifications. Adjustments outside of this range may be considered for candidates whose qualifications significantly differ from those outlined in the job description. Life @ Hebbia

  • PTO: Unlimited
  • Insurance: Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K + Wellness Benefits
  • Eats: Catered lunch daily + DoorDash dinner credit
  • Parental leave: 3 months for non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent
  • Fertility benefits: $15k lifetime benefit
  • New hire equity grant: Competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential

Why work at Hebbia AI

  • Culture: High ownership, hard problems, and cross-domain collaboration. Team includes ex-bankers, ex-McKinsey, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft, ex-Stripe. “The best work happens when the people doing it actually care.”
  • Work Arrangement: Hybrid model with offices in Downtown New York, San Francisco, and London; some fully remote roles available (APAC, Middle East, certain GTM roles).
  • Perks:
    • Startup equity
    • Competitive salary
    • Daily catered lunches
    • Flexible PTO
    • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision insurance
    • Fertility HRA
    • Parental leave
  • Engineering Culture:
    • Small, high-impact teams.
    • Focus on reliability, scalability, and pushing the limits of applied AI.
    • 34 technical staff (22% of company).
    • Active open-source? Not mentioned, but strong internal R&D.
  • Growth Trajectory: Rapidly scaling headcount (17% YoY), raising large rounds, and acquiring complementary tech – typical for a high-growth startup with significant market traction.

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