Product Manager (Builder)

Perplexity
Palo Alto, US
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior product managers who thrive in small, agile teams and have domain expertise in a specific industry.

Best fit for

  • Domain experts passionate about innovating within a specific industry.
    — “highlight which industry you are most interested in innovating
  • Product leaders with experience in productivity and knowledge work products.
    — “Experience with productivity and knowledge work products
  • Candidates comfortable making high-stakes decisions in uncertain environments.
    — “make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty

Things to consider

  • Requires working closely with engineering and design teams.
    — “Work closely with engineering and design
  • Must be comfortable with iterative, data-driven product development.
    — “building data driven flywheels for iterative improvement

How to stand out

  • Showcase a track record of delivering long-term product visions.
    — “deliver a long-term vision
  • Demonstrate expertise in product-led growth and retention strategies.
    — “Understanding of levers for product-led growth and retention
  • Highlight specific industry domain knowledge in your application.
    — “in the application please highlight which industry
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries
  • Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities
Typical background
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field4+ years of product management experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Strong Experience With Product Management And LeadershipExperience With Productivity And Knowledge Work ProductsExperience With Prototyping And Data VisualizationExperience With Building Data Driven Flywheels For Iterative Improvement

Preferred

Experience In A Particular Industry

Stack & domain

Product ManagementLeadershipData And MetricsProduct-led GrowthRetentionPrototypingData VisualizationBuilding Data Driven FlywheelsCommunicationWritingInnovationReimagining WorkOwnershipAIKnowledge WorkProductivity

About the role

As a Product Manager at Perplexity, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, working closely with design and engineering teams to develop cutting-edge AI products that transform how people work and learn, ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and has a passion for reimagining productivity tools.

Original posting from Perplexity via Ashby

PERPLEXITY IS LOOKING FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS TO JOIN A HIGHLY LEVERAGED, SMALL TEAM FOR BUILDING NEW PRODUCTS THAT INNOVATE TO ACCELERATE HUMAN PRODUCTIVITY.

In 2026, we launched Computer, the defining product for the new era of agentic AI. We’ve scaled beyond the millions of people using Perplexity every day for research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.

Product managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the core Computer and search experience. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have a passion in a particular industry that they are domain experts in: in the application please highlight which industry you are most interested in innovating.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • 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.
  • Work with data and user research to understand quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 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.

OUR MISSION

Perplexity’s mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating.

Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more. They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it. Research is essential to them and never ending.

Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new answers to problems no one else ever questioned. They take action on what they’ve learned. Makers need tools to create their products, their companies, their reality.

Integrate: they must interact with the world as it is to drive change and adoption. True leaders do not simply build something and hope. They must have armies of agents and workers who can constantly work in millions of small ways.

Repeat. For curious people this is a cycle that never ends.

Source: Perplexity careers (Ashby)

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