Product Manager (AI Capabilities)

Perplexity AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI in New York is seeking a seasoned product leader to guide the AI Capabilities team. You will shape the strategy for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects, ensuring experiences are powerful, understandable, extensible, and dependable.

Collaborate with design, engineering, data science, and research to turn complex AI primitives into accessible products, balance priorities, and drive adoption.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience.
• Strong leadership experience driving product direction.
• Experience with agentic systems, tool use, evaluations, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience building AI-native productivity, collaboration, platform, or developer-facing products.
• Proven ability to translate complex AI primitives into tangible products.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-leverage user and platform problems and translate into product direction.
• Partner with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver usable experiences.
• Define long-term vision for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects.
• Balance capabilities across multiple teams and align expectations with platform capabilities.
• Communicate decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings to leadership.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Agentic systems

AI-native products

Data-driven decision making

Job description

• The AI Capabilities team owns the product structures that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. This includes Skills that teach Computer how to work, collaboration that helps people and agents build together, artifact generation that turns ideas into polished outputs, and Projects that organize context, knowledge, and ongoing work
• You will take these capabilities to the next level by identifying the highest-leverage user and platform problems, translating them into clear product direction, and partnering closely with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver experiences that feel powerful, understandable, extensible, and dependable. This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, fluency in agentic systems, and an exceptional ability to turn technical primitives into products people can use
• Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in reusable, composable AI capabilities
• Envision and deliver a long-term vision for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects
• Understand the levers for capability discovery, adoption, reuse, sharing, and ecosystem growth
• Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations with model, tool, and platform capabilities
• Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models, tools, and agents into high-value outcomes for users
• Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty
• Develop a deep understanding of how individuals and teams create, customize, collaborate, and build repeatable workflows with AI
• Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, permissions, and well-designed feedback
• Drive alignment when capabilities span Computer, Search, Projects, artifacts, connectors, or multiple teams
• Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners

• 4+ years of product management experience
• Strong experience with product management and leadership
• Experience with agentic systems, tool use, evaluations, extensibility, or workflow orchestration
• Experience building AI-native productivity, collaboration, platform, or developer-facing products
• Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership
• Experience building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvement
• Experience with rapid prototyping and designing systems that produce high-quality artifacts
• Strong experience working with data and metrics