Product Manager, AI Capabilities & Platforms

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

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a product leader to define and advance AI capabilities that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. You will shape long-term visions for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects, partnering with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver powerful, understandable products.

You will translate complex model and platform constraints into usable features, measure impact with data, and guide teams through ambiguity to deliver

Qualifications

• Strong experience with product management and leadership.
• Experience working with data and metrics.
• Experience building AI-native productivity, collaboration, platform, or developer-facing products.
• Experience with agentic systems, tool use, evaluations, extensibility, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience with rapid prototyping and designing systems that produce high-quality artifacts.
• 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 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.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Data & metrics

AI-native products

Agentic systems

Rapid prototyping

Ownership

Agile teamwork

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a product leader to define and advance AI capabilities that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. You will shape long-term visions for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects, partnering with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver powerful, understandable products.

You will translate complex model and platform constraints into usable features, measure impact with data, and guide teams through ambiguity to deliver