Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Perplexity
San Francisco, CA
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience shipping consumer mobile products and thrive in agile, small teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a track record of shipping high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or Android
    — “Experience shipping and scaling high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or Android.
  • Individuals who can align product goals with native platform capabilities and constraints
    — “Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations with native platform capabilities and constraints.
  • Candidates who enjoy driving iterative, data-driven improvements through experimentation
    — “Experience building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvement.

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of ownership and initiative in a small, fast-moving team
    — “Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership.
  • The position requires navigating complex AI behaviors on small screens for user control
    — “Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable on small screens through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, and well-designed feedback.

How to stand out

  • Highlight mobile projects where you directly addressed user friction and improved engagement
    — “Develop a deep understanding of mobile user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation.
  • Demonstrate your ability to translate user problems into clear product direction
    — “Identify the highest-leverage mobile user problems, translate them into clear product direction.
  • Showcase your experience with rapid prototyping and data visualization in mobile contexts
    — “Experience with rapid mobile prototyping, experimentation, and data visualization.
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • owning the end-to-end mobile experience
  • delivering innovative mobile experiences
Typical background
experience in mobile product managementbackground in AI technology

Skills & requirements

Required

Product VisionMobile Product ManagementUser EmpathyData-driven Decision Making

Preferred

AI TechnologyAgentic AI

Stack & domain

Product ManagementLeadershipDataMetricsMobile Product DevelopmentRapid PrototypingData VisualizationData-driven FlywheelsCommunicationInitiativeMobile AppsAISearch

About the role

Original posting from Perplexity via Ashby

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 native mobile experiences that bring agentic AI and search into people’s everyday lives. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and a willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have deep experience building exceptional mobile products: in the application, please highlight the mobile apps or platform experiences you are most proud of shipping.

THE ROLE

The Mobile Apps team owns the end-to-end Perplexity experience across iOS and Android. This includes how users discover and onboard into the product, search and take action on the go, use voice, camera, notifications, widgets, and other native capabilities, manage subscriptions and preferences, and return to ongoing work across devices.

You will identify the highest-leverage mobile 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, fluency in mobile platform constraints and opportunities, and an exceptional eye for detail.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in how people use AI on mobile.
  • Envision new mobile experiences and deliver a long-term vision across iOS and Android.
  • Understand the levers for mobile product-led growth, engagement, and retention.
  • Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations with native platform capabilities and constraints.
  • Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models into high-value outcomes for mobile users.
  • Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty.
  • Develop a deep understanding of mobile user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation.
  • Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable on small screens through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, and well-designed feedback.
  • Drive alignment when improvements span iOS, Android, web, backend systems, or multiple teams.
  • Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Strong experience with product management and leadership.
  • Strong experience working with data and metrics.
  • Experience shipping and scaling high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or Android.
  • Deep understanding of native mobile interaction patterns, platform capabilities, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience with rapid mobile prototyping, experimentation, and data visualization.
  • Experience 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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