Director of Events and Experiences, Perplexity
$185-240k
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$185-240k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years producing events, including large hosted events, sponsorships, and field programs, ideally in-house at a technology company
- Has built or led an events team
- Has owned large budgets, agency relationships, and vendor contracts
- Has negotiated sponsorships and knows a bad deal when they see one
- Has run an executive speaking program: selecting stages, preparing speakers, managing the day
- Knows production: run of show, staging, AV, registration, staffing, security, permits
- Drives measurement. Has built event attribution and tracked brand sentiment, and reports what each event returned
- Can partner with Sales, Product, Comms, Brand, Finance, Legal, and executives
- Power user of AI tools. Most of your work already runs through them, and you can show us how
- Based in San Francisco or New York
- If you have produced a flagship and a dinner in the same week, know what a good sponsorship deal looks like, and want to build an events function from the ground up, this role is for you
What the job involves
- Perplexity is seeking a Director of Events to own our events worldwide: the ones we host, the stages we speak on, and the ones we sponsor
- You will set the strategy, run production, manage the budget, and build the team
- Own events. Hosted, speaking, sponsored. Strategy, budget, production, results
- Set the calendar. Decide which events we run, which we speak at, and which we skip
- Produce hosted events. Launches, dinners, summits, roadshows. Concept, programming, venue, vendors, run of show
- Run the speaking program. Pick the stages. Prepare the speakers
- Manage sponsorships. Negotiate terms, design our footprint, and account for the spend
- Run field events with Sales. Get the right customers in the room. Make sure someone follows up
- Be Perplexity. Our events should look and feel like our product. Work with Brand and Creative on every one
- Lead the team. Equal parts IC and manager
- Build the system. Playbooks, event tiers, intake, vendors, agencies, budgets
- Measure. Attendance, coverage, pipeline, signups. Know which events worked and stop doing the ones that didn't
- Be on site. For the events that matter, you are in the room
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 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: $1.8bn
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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