Lead Product Designer, Enterprise

Perplexity

San Francisco +1 more

HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience designing enterprise software and leading product design from 0→1.

Best fit for

Candidates with 5+ years of enterprise software design experience and a track record of leading complex product initiatives
— “5+ years of industry experience”
Individuals who have designed tools for large workplace cohorts and understand nuanced role-based access systems
— “Experience designing non-deterministic tools used by large workplace cohorts”
Professionals who can independently identify problems and strategically develop solutions for enterprise use cases
— “Work independently and strategically — finding the problems and the solutions”

Things to consider

The role demands a high level of cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and marketing teams
— “Work closely with product, engineering, and the broader design team”
The candidate must be comfortable with both building new features and optimizing existing ones at scale
— “Comfortable thinking about both 0→1 product design and large-scale optimization”

How to stand out

Highlight your experience with role-based access and administrative systems in enterprise software
— “Design for the realities of enterprise software: organizational and seat management, role-based access, admin management, permissions, privacy, security, and compliance”
Showcase your ability to ship features that blend AI with established UI paradigms
— “Ship features that balance well-established UI paradigms with novel applications of AI”
Demonstrate your end-to-end ownership of product design and optimization processes
— “Own work end-to-end, from 0→1 product design through large-scale optimization”
Emphasize your communication skills and ability to align with stakeholders across teams
— “An excellent communicator with team members and users”
Include examples of how you ensure software is both innovative and accessible to all users
— “Make software that feels like the future but can be used and understood by anyone in the world today”

Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

designing net-new enterprise surfaces
crafting nuanced role-based experiences
shipping features that balance established UI paradigms with novel AI applications

Typical background

5+ years of industry experience in product design

Skills & requirements

Required

Enterprise Software DesignRole-based AccessPermissionsSecurityComplianceVisual DesignUi/interaction DesignCommunication

Preferred

Coding With React Or Swiftui

Stack & domain

UI DesignInteraction DesignBrand DesignGrowth DesignCopywritingMarketingCommunicationProblem-solvingStrategic ThinkingEnterprise SoftwareAIProduct Design

About the role

Original posting from Perplexity via Ashby

Perplexity is looking for a Lead Product Designer to own the design of our enterprise product. You'll design new experiences across enterprise and multiplayer use cases — making software that feels like the future but can be understood and used by anyone in the world today.
These surfaces are net-new and, in many cases, unprecedented. You'll be building them 0→1, which means bringing deep knowledge of how enterprise software actually works: organizational and seat management, and deeply nuanced role-based experiences that account for workplace policy, compliance, administrative management, privacy, permissions, and security. You'll ship features that balance well-established UI paradigms with novel applications of AI, working independently and strategically to find both the problems worth solving and the solutions worth shipping.
Good design that nobody gets to use is wasted, so you'll optimize for getting great software into customers' hands and learning from real usage. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and the broader design team, and you care about everything it takes to make a product great: product, interaction, brand, growth, copywriting, engineering, and marketing.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Design net-new, 0→1 enterprise surfaces across enterprise and general multiplayer use cases
Design for the realities of enterprise software: organizational management, seat management, admin controls, permissions, privacy, security, and compliance
Craft deeply nuanced role-based experiences that adapt to workplace policy and different levels of access and responsibility
Ship features that balance well-established UI paradigms with novel applications of AI
Make software that feels like the future but can be used and understood by anyone in the world today
Work independently and strategically — finding the problems and the solutions
Own work end-to-end, from 0→1 product design through large-scale optimization
Contribute to process so we're always shipping changes you're proud of, as often as possible
Partner with brand design to ensure the enterprise product is not only useful but memorable
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Experience designing enterprise, consumer, or prosumer products
Deep knowledge of enterprise software: organizational and seat management, role-based access, admin management, permissions, privacy, security, and compliance
Experience designing non-deterministic tools used by large workplace cohorts — eg.Figma, Slack, Ramp, Airtable
Comfortable thinking about both 0→1 product design and large-scale optimization
Excellent visual, UI, and interaction skills
An excellent communicator with team members and users
Comfort prototyping or coding your ideas
You care about shipping great software more than anything else
5+ years of industry experience
NICE TO HAVE
Some of our design team writes production code — we welcome existing skills or interest in coding with React or SwiftUI

Source: Perplexity careers (Ashby)