iOS Growth Engineer: Onboarding, Retention & Monetization

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a mobile growth engineer to own the iOS funnel—from install through paid upgrades—across Perplexity, Comet, and Computer apps. You will lead end-to-end experiments, implement paywall and pricing strategies, and ship push/notifi­cation experiences to improve retention and monetization.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and the core Mobile team to translate user behavior into durable product surfaces.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional mobile engineering shipping consumer apps on iOS.
• Strong native skills with Swift/SwiftUI/Objective-C.
• Experience owning a full release cycle: tooling, rollouts, store review, monitoring, and safe rollback.
• Ability to ship many experiments in parallel and drive to outcomes.
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms (Eppo, Statsig, Optimizely, or in-house).
• Comfort with data-informed decision-making and funnel analysis.
• Strong product judgment translating user behavior into technical solutions.
• Self-motivated with ownership and proactive experimentation.
• Genuine interest in AI products and quick learning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own growth surfaces across the mobile funnel on iOS.
• Lead end-to-end experiments from hypothesis to rollout, enabling parallel testing.
• Own in-app purchases, paywalls, and pricing experiments.
• Build push and lifecycle notifications with opt-in strategies and measurability.
• Ensure native-like cross-platform experiences with web and design partners.
• Collaborate to optimize App Store performance and attribution.
• Drive key metrics like activation, retention, and paid conversion.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and Mobile teams.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

Objective-C

A/B testing

Experimentation platforms

Data-informed decisions

Product judgment

Ownership mindset

AI products interest

Tools

AppsFlyer

Adjust

Branch

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a mobile growth engineer to own the iOS funnel—from install through paid upgrades—across Perplexity, Comet, and Computer apps. You will lead end-to-end experiments, implement paywall and pricing strategies, and ship push/notifi­cation experiences to improve retention and monetization.

You will work closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Monetization, Marketing, and the core Mobile team to translate user behavior into durable product surfaces.