Lead Mobile Product Manager — AI-Powered Apps

Perplexity; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Mobile Apps Product Manager to own the end-to-end mobile experiences across iOS and Android. You will translate user needs into a clear product direction, partnering with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive, and cohesive experiences across devices.

You will identify high-leverage mobile problems, articulate a long-term vision, and drive mobile-led growth and retention through collaboration and disciplined experimentation.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Data-driven decisions

Mobile product experience

Native mobile platforms

Experimentation & prototyping

Ownership & initiative

4+ years PM experience

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a Mobile Apps Product Manager to own the end-to-end mobile experiences across iOS and Android. You will translate user needs into a clear product direction, partnering with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive, and cohesive experiences across devices.

You will identify high-leverage mobile problems, articulate a long-term vision, and drive mobile-led growth and retention through collaboration and disciplined experimentation.