Product Manager Platform

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.

San Francisco, United States
About Perplexity

Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.

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About the Role

You will identify high-impact platform problems using product data, operational feedback, and quality signals. You will turn recurring needs into shared capabilities, prioritize reliability and technical-debt investments, define success metrics, write requirements, make technical tradeoffs with engineering, and drive delivery through launch and iteration.

Requirements

  • Experience owning product strategy and execution for technical products, platforms, or shared systems
  • Technical fluency with APIs, data flows, system dependencies, and failure modes
  • Analytical ability to investigate problems, define metrics, and evaluate platform investments
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Experience working with multiple stakeholders and complex tradeoffs
  • Experience building AI products with evaluation, safeguards, and human-in-the-loop design
  • Experience with critical software such as support, compliance, identity, billing, fraud, or trust and safety tooling

Responsibilities

  • Identify high-impact platform problems using data and operational feedback
  • Turn recurring needs into shared services, tools, and workflows
  • Work with product, engineering, and operational teams to understand workflows
  • Prioritize investments across product enablement, reliability, efficiency, and technical debt
  • Define and track business, reliability, cost, and manual-work success metrics
  • Partner with engineering on technical tradeoffs, build-versus-buy decisions, and rollout plans
  • Write requirements and drive delivery through launch and iteration

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Fitness benefits
  • Commuter account
  • Dependent care account