Product Manager, Perplexity
Core Experience
$230-330k
+ equity
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230-330k
+ equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- The Core Experience team owns the foundational interactions that define how people use Perplexity every day. This includes how users begin and continue work, understand what the product is doing, navigate and find what they need, manage their context and preferences, collaborate with others, and return to ongoing work across platforms
- You will identify the highest-leverage user problems, translate them into clear product direction, and partner closely with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver experiences that feel fast, intuitive, cohesive, and dependable. This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, and an exceptional eye for detail
- 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
- Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty
- Develop a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation
- Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, and well-designed feedback
- Drive alignment when improvements span multiple product surfaces, platforms, or teams
- Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners
Our take
As AI continues to drive changes in both business operations and day-to-day lives, Perplexity 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 has allowed Perplexity to continue building out its product, and accelerate growth into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2025
$200m
LATE VC
Jul 2025
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.8bn
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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