People Ops Manager, Perplexity AI
8 Month Maternity Cover
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in People Ops, HR, or Global Mobility, ideally in a tech or startup environment
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and regulatory compliance
- Proven experience managing visa and immigration cases end-to-end (UK Skilled Worker, EU work permits, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with HRIS platforms such as Rippling or Deel. Excellent attention to detail and discretion when handling sensitive information
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions is a plus. Flexibility to work with US time zones (occasional overlap with PST/EST required)
What the job involves
- Perplexity AI is hiring a People Ops Manager on an 8-month maternity cover basis, with the possibility of extending into a permanent role
- This role centres on legal compliance, employment law, and visa and immigration processing across the UK and EU
- You will own the full employee lifecycle, ensuring operational continuity while the current post-holder is on leave
- The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience from a fast-paced tech environment and is confident navigating UK employment law, right-to-work requirements, and multi-jurisdictional compliance
- Ensure company-wide compliance with UK employment law
- Advise leadership on disciplinary, grievance, termination, and legal matters across UK and EU jurisdictions
- Draft, review, and update employment contracts, offer letters, and company policies
- Liaise with external legal counsel and manage relationships with employment lawyers
- Coordinate with immigration lawyers and local authorities to ensure the relocation process for international hires
- Manage end-to-end immigration cases, including UK Skilled Worker visas and EU work permits
- Maintain a visa tracking system for all sponsored employees; ensure timely renewals and UK sponsor licence compliance
- Conduct right-to-work checks for all new hires and maintain auditable records
- Prepare and submit Sponsor Management System (SMS) reports and ensure Home Office compliance
- Advise hiring managers on sponsorship routes, timelines, and eligibility requirements
- Administer HRIS platforms (Rippling, Deel) and ensure data accuracy across all employee records
- Manage onboarding and off-boarding processes, payroll coordination, and benefits administration
- Support performance review cycles and compensation processes
- Serve as the first point of contact for employee queries and people-related initiatives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity AI delivers an intelligent search engine powered by conversational AI, to improve search outcomes and "unlock the power of knowledge" for all.
Reaching impressive heights of 22M monthly visits, Perplexity's "ask anything" method of search is clearly a popular one. And what sets it apart from other search engines is in its answers, which are concise and fully cited, responding to the user query rather than simply providing a place in which they can scroll to find it themselves.
The company has raised substantial funding, with contributions from former execs at companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Quora, demonstrating the interest that it has drummed up in the space. Having doubled its annual recurring revenue between 2023 and 24, this investment will allow Perplexity AI to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Aravind Srinivas
(Co-Founder, President & CEO)Former Research Scientist at OpenAI, who has interned in Research at Google and Deep Mind. Obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Perplexity in 2022, Denis was an AI Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, a Staff ML Engineer at Quora, and a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.
Johnny Ho
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, and Engineer at Quora.
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