AI-Driven SMB Growth Product Manager

Perplexity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Product Manager in New York to build and scale agent-based workflows for SMB customers. You will partner with design and engineering to convert customer learnings into actionable product requirements for connectors, skills, and agent capabilities, driving reliable, high-impact growth.

The role emphasizes writing prompts, creating agent systems, and leading fast-paced initiatives across paid, lifecycle, and onboarding programs.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of total work experience with a strong academic record.
• 2 years in investment banking, strategy consulting, or a comparable high-intensity analytical role, followed by some operating experience.
• You've run, or worked closely alongside, real marketing workflows: paid social, lifecycle, CRO, or SEO.
• You already use agents to automate complex processes and are comfortable writing prompts, skills, and building end-to-end agent systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable running a working relationship with customers.
• Comfortable with SQL. You can pull your own cohorts, validate your own segments, and build your own dashboard & reporting systems.
• Operates at high velocity. You ship daily and thrive in fast-paced, early-stage environments where processes are still being defined.

Responsibilities

• Work with select SMB customers to build and test frontier agent capabilities that run their revenue-generating workflows.
• Prioritize the highest-value workflows to automate and build the skills, evals, and agent systems that make them reliable and performant.
• Turn customer learnings into product requirements for connectors, skills, and agent capabilities, and partner with cross-functional product teams to build.
• Drive SMB acquisition through personalized demos, case studies, and paid and lifecycle channels, measured on acquisition targets and CAC.
• Drive usage expansion across our existing SMB base through personalized onboarding, lifecycle, and product growth levers.
• Work with partnerships and growth marketing teams to design, execute, and package customer case studies to distribute across paid, organic, and partner channels.

Skills

Strong written and verbal comms

Agent workflows experience

Prompt engineering

SQL

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SQL

Shopify

Klaviyo

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TikTok Ads

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Product Manager in New York to build and scale agent-based workflows for SMB customers. You will partner with design and engineering to convert customer learnings into actionable product requirements for connectors, skills, and agent capabilities, driving reliable, high-impact growth.

The role emphasizes writing prompts, creating agent systems, and leading fast-paced initiatives across paid, lifecycle, and onboarding programs.