Governance, Risk & Compliance Lead , Perplexity AI
$200-220k
Conversational AI-powered search tool
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Conversational AI-powered search tool
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To advance the way people discover and share information.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience leading engagements in audit and compliance
- Experience leading compliance teams
- Worked in high tech companies in cloud-native environments
- Able to translate complex compliance requirements into clear and actionable work-streams
- Strong commitment to cross-functional collaboration with IT, Security, GTM, and Engineering
- Self-motivated, detailed and organized, with a diligent approach to project completion
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
What the job involves
- Perplexity is seeking a highly experienced Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst to join our world-class team
- You will help shape our compliance and risk management program
- Implement and lead frameworks such as SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA. Ensuring compliance with certification requirements
- Ensure and maintain compliance with GDPR, CCPA, CPRA and other privacy regulations
- Design and build scalable audit management processes and documentation systems that will support future expansion to additional compliance frameworks
- Conduct risk assessments and mitigate data security and compliance risks
- Write, update and enact policies capturing security, privacy, and AI safety requirements
- Follow and help shape the AI regulatory and standards landscape to keep the company at the forefront of industry developments and best practices
- If you are a self-motivated, organized professional with a passion for driving compliance and building customer trust, this is an exciting chance to join a fast-growing startup and help revolutionize the way people search and interact online
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.
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Insights
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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