Platform Product Manager — AI-Driven Internal Tools

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is looking for a product leader to own platform strategy across internal and external users. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations to turn recurring needs into reusable services and workflows, reducing duplicated work.

You will guide decisions on build-versus-buy, API design, and data flows, while prioritizing reliability, efficiency, and long-term flexibility in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning product strategy and execution on technical products and platforms, or shared systems used by multiple teams such as billing and monetization, identity and access, developer platforms, data and experimentation, internal tooling, support, etc.

Responsibilities

• Understand the needs of the teams that use our platforms and the customers who depend on them. Use product data, operational feedback, and recurring quality issues to identify the highest-impact problems, and then solve them.
• Turn recurring needs into shared services, tools, and workflows that reduce duplicated work. Exercise judgment about when to build a reusable capability, use an existing solution, or take a simpler approach.
• Work directly with product, engineering, and operational teams to understand their workflows, identify recurring problems, and anticipate the capabilities they will need next.
• Prioritize platform investments across new product enablement, reliability, efficiency, and technical debt. Make clear tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term flexibility.
• Define and track success through business impact, reliability, cost to serve, and reduced manual work, connecting these measures to customer and business outcomes.
• Partner closely with engineering on technical tradeoffs, build-versus-buy decisions, and rollout plans. Write clear requirements and drive delivery from problem definition through launch and iteration.

Skills

Product strategy

Technical platforms

APIs

Data flows

Experimentation

Internal tooling

Billing and monetization

Identity and access

Developer platforms

Support tooling

Job description

Perplexity is looking for a product leader to own platform strategy across internal and external users. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and operations to turn recurring needs into reusable services and workflows, reducing duplicated work.

You will guide decisions on build-versus-buy, API design, and data flows, while prioritizing reliability, efficiency, and long-term flexibility in a fast-moving environment.