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title: 'Consumer Support Specialist at Perplexity'
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# Consumer Support Specialist at Perplexity

- **Company:** [Perplexity](https://feeny.ai/companies/perplexity)
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $100k–$115k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/6628bead-dec0-4ed2-8aef-5a036815d2a0

## Job description

## About the Team

The User Operations team at Perplexity AI is the frontline of our user experience. We ensure that our AI-powered search and answer engine delivers real value to every user—from individual consumers to teams and organizations. Our team operates across 3-4 active support channels—email, in-app messaging, Slack, and community—and collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, Billing, and Growth to turn user feedback into product improvements. We’re a lean, fast-moving group at a startup that ships constantly, so everyone on the team wears multiple hats and contributes well beyond just resolving tickets.

## About the Role

Perplexity launches new features and products at a rapid pace—and this role sits at the center of that. We need a User Operations Generalist who combines excellent customer support instincts with real technical depth. You’ll handle high volumes of user inquiries across channels while also digging into product issues, using customer feedback to uncover problems, and providing solutions that improve the experience for everyone.

This isn’t just ticket work. As new features and products ship, you’re the person who hears about it first from users—what’s working, what’s confusing, and what’s broken. You’ll use those interactions to surface insights that shape how launches land, identify issues before they scale, and provide clear solutions back to users. You’ll also build automations and improve workflows that make the team faster and smarter, so we can keep up with the pace of the product without sacrificing quality.

You should be comfortable operating across multiple support channels and have experience standing up or optimizing multi-channel support operations—not just working in them, but thinking critically about how they’re structured, routed, and scaled.

This role requires someone who can navigate ambiguity and fill in the gaps where processes don’t yet exist. You won’t always have a playbook—and that’s the point. We need someone who can define the path forward, not just follow one.

You’re a strong, independent operator who doesn’t need to be told what to do next:

- You see the gap—whether it’s a missing Help Center article, a broken workflow, or a pattern in user tickets—and you move to fix it
- You’re self-motivated and take initiative, but you also know when to ask questions
- You communicate effectively with the team—keeping people informed, surfacing blockers early, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks
- We won’t hold your hand through this role, and we wouldn’t want to—because you’re the kind of person who thrives when given ownership and trust

## Responsibilities

- Handle a high volume of user inquiries across channels (email, chat, Slack, community) with speed, accuracy, and empathy for both consumer and business users.
- Deliver excellent customer support—clear, thoughtful, and human—even under pressure and at scale
- Triage and prioritize effectively to keep response and resolution times on target
- Use customer feedback and support interactions as a primary source for uncovering product issues, UX confusion, and feature gaps—especially as new products and features launch
- Investigate and troubleshoot product issues: reproduce problems, isolate root causes, provide users with solutions or workarounds, and document findings for Engineering
- Guide users through technical troubleshooting: AI search, LLM behavior, account configuration
- File well-documented bugs in Linear with enough context for Engineering to act immediately
- Leverage AI tooling and automation (Intercom, scripts) to streamline operations, reduce repetitive work, and scale support quality
- Write and maintain Help Center articles, internal SOPs, escalation playbooks, and troubleshooting guides
- Communicate cross-functionally—surface user insights to Product and Engineering, escalate issues, close the loop, and keep teammates informed
- Track support KPIs and propose data-driven process improvements

## Requirements

- 3+ years in customer support, user operations, or technical support—ideally at a SaaS or tech company
- Proven ability to manage high ticket volumes while maintaining quality and empathy
- Excellent customer-facing communication: clear, professional, and adaptable to different audiences
- Technical aptitude: comfortable working through product issues, navigating technical questions independently, and learning new tools and systems quickly
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and automation platforms (Intercom workflows, scripting) to improve operations
- Familiarity with AI, LLMs, or search technologies
- Strong internal communication—keeps their immediate team informed, writes crisp updates for immediate team and cross-functional partners (Product, Engineering, etc.), and ensures stakeholders stay in the loop on issues and progress
- Self-motivated and proactive: manages own priorities, takes initiative, delivers without waiting for direction
- Experience creating user-facing documentation (e.g., Help Center articles, FAQs, guides) as well as internal SOPs, templates, and playbooks
- Experience with multi-channel support operations—not just working across channels, but helping stand up, optimize, or scale how support is structured and routed
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume startup environment with shifting priorities

## Nice to Have

- Experience with support and operations tooling such as Intercom, Parahelp, Linear, Notion, or Stripe.
- Familiarity with prompting techniques and LLM optimization
- Basic web tech understanding (HTTP, REST APIs, JavaScript, HTML)
- Data analysis tools (SQL, Looker, Snowflake)
- Scripting or lightweight automation background (Google Apps Script, Python)
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup

## Who You Are

You’re the kind of person who:

- Sees a gap and fills it before anyone asks
- Thrives in high-volume environments and keeps quality high even when things move fast
- Thinks creatively—you don’t just follow the playbook, you look for better ways to solve problems and aren’t afraid to try something new
- Treats every user interaction as a chance to learn something about the product
- Gets energized by building automations that save the team hours
- Communicates with clarity—whether writing a Help Center article, filing a bug, or updating the team in Slack
- Takes full ownership end-to-end: you don’t just escalate, you follow through

Why Perplexity? Impact at Scale – Your work directly influences millions of users and shapes the future of AI-powered search. Velocity & Ownership – Ship improvements quickly in a culture that values curiosity, speed, and quality. Cutting-Edge Tech – Operate at the forefront of applied LLMs and help define how AI transforms customer support.

## About Perplexity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine that delivers accurate, real-time answers to any question, serving curious minds and professionals who demand precision and speed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $1.7B across 16 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered search and knowledge retrieval, Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2C (general users), B2B (enterprise API customers), and power users seeking reliable information
- **Mission**: “AI for people who expect more – more accuracy, more agency, more signal, less noise.”

## Products & Services
- **Perplexity AI (Free Tier)**: Real-time conversational search engine that synthesizes web results with citations, accessible via web and mobile app. *Type*: SaaS
- **Perplexity Pro**: Subscription offering enhanced features such as advanced AI models, multimodal search, and increased usage limits. *Type*: SaaS (subscription)
- **Perplexity API Platform**: Enables developers to integrate Perplexity’s search and reasoning capabilities into their own applications. *Type*: API
- **Perplexity Browser Extension**: Brings AI-powered search directly into the browser for quick answers without leaving the page. *Type*: Browser extension

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources (prior reports indicate ~$9B valuation as of 2024, but not confirmed in this data set)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $1.7B (16 rounds); annual revenue ~$50M (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in provided search results; widely known investors include IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, and others (not sourced here)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 11.3% YoY to 1,152 employees; operates in 54 countries; LinkedIn followers grew 131.8% yearly to >1.6M; active hiring across 48+ open roles including AI Research, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-time, cited answers**: Unlike traditional chatbots, Perplexity grounds answers in live web results with transparent sources, building trust and accuracy.
- **Multimodal and agentic capabilities**: Continuously pushes frontier research (e.g., query-aware context compression, agents for knowledge work) that differentiates from generic LLM interfaces.
- **Vertical integration from research to product**: In-house AI research team tackles open problems unique to Perplexity’s scale, enabling fast iteration on novel methods.
- **Strong brand and user base**: Rapid consumer adoption with millions of monthly active users and high engagement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Pushing the frontier of search**: Evolving from retrieval services to code generation, agents, and full autonomy in knowledge work.
- **Expanding enterprise and API revenue**: Growing B2B footprint with API platform and enterprise solutions.
- **Global hiring and office expansion**: Offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Austin, Washington D.C., London, Berlin, and Belgrade, with “4 days in office” hybrid model.
- **Investing in AI research**: Dedicated research division (Perplexity Research) exploring reasoning, agents, and systems to redefine how people navigate the internet.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Environment**: “Thoughtful support” culture with emphasis on craftsmanship, ownership, entrepreneurship, scholarship, and partnership. Hybrid schedule (4 days in-office) based on location.
- **Perks**: Daily catered meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner in office), office snacks, ride home program, commuter benefits, home office reimbursement, fitness classes, gym memberships.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity packages; retirement plans with company match; flexible PTO; holiday shutdown between Christmas and New Year; 12 weeks paid bonding leave; comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- **Relocation & Visa Support**: Relocation assistance and visa/green card sponsorship for eligible roles. Partners with immigration firm to support the process.
- **Engineering Excellence**: “Technical assessment for relevant roles”; values hands-on contribution, broad skill sets, and merit-based evaluation. Frequent Tech Talks and exposure to greenfield AI research problems.

## Sources
1. [perplexity.ai/hub/careers](https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/careers)
2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity)
3. [perplexity.ai](https://www.perplexity.ai/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/perplexity-ai)
5. [research.perplexity.ai](https://research.perplexity.ai/)

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