
Product Manager (Builder) at Perplexity (San Francisco, CA)
Perplexity· San Francisco, CA· $230k–$330k·
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Perplexity at a glance
AI-powered answer engine that returns real-time, cited answers, now expanding into an agentic browser and on-device agents.
Perplexity runs an AI answer engine that searches the live web and returns direct, cited answers instead of a page of links. It has extended that core into an AI browser (Comet), an on-device agent (Computer), a developer API, and vertical tools like patent search.
$1.7B raised · latest: Series E extension · $200M · 2025 (reported $20B valuation) · backed by Accel, IVP, NEA, SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Summary
Perplexity is seeking a Product Manager to join a small team building new products that accelerate human productivity through agentic AI. The role involves anticipating innovation opportunities, collaborating with engineering and design, and driving product-led growth within enterprise industries.
Job description
PERPLEXITY IS LOOKING FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS TO JOIN A HIGHLY LEVERAGED, SMALL TEAM FOR BUILDING NEW PRODUCTS THAT INNOVATE TO ACCELERATE HUMAN PRODUCTIVITY.
In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.
Product managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the core Computer and search experience. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have a passion in a particular industry that they are domain experts in: in the application please highlight which industry you are most interested in innovating.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries.
- Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision.
- Understanding of levers for product-led growth and retention.
- Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities.
- Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models into the high value outcomes for users.
- Work with data and user research to understand quantitative and qualitative data.
- Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong experience with product management and leadership.
- Strong experience working with data and metrics.
- Experience with productivity and knowledge work products.
- Experience with prototyping and data visualization.
- Experience with building data driven flywheels for iterative improvement.
- Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership.
- 4+ years of product management experience.
OUR MISSION
Perplexity’s mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating.
Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more. They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it. Research is essential to them and never ending.
Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new answers to problems no one else ever questioned. They take action on what they’ve learned. Makers need tools to create their products, their companies, their reality.
Integrate: they must interact with the world as it is to drive change and adoption. True leaders do not simply build something and hope. They must have armies of agents and workers who can constantly work in millions of small ways.
Repeat. For curious people this is a cycle that never ends.
Why work at Perplexity
- 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.