Product Manager (Core Experience)

Perplexity AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking a seasoned Product Manager to own core experiences guiding daily user interactions with the platform. You will identify high-leverage problems, translate them into clear product direction, and partner with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, cohesive experiences.

You will drive product-led growth, align expectations across surfaces, and evaluate models to deliver high-value outcomes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience.
• Strong experience with product management and leadership.
• Experience with productivity and knowledge work products.
• Experience with building data driven flywheels for iterative improvement.
• Experience with prototyping and data visualization.
• Strong experience working with data and metrics.
• Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership.

Responsibilities

• Identify the highest-leverage user problems and translate them into clear product direction.
• Partner with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive, cohesive experiences.
• Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries.
• Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision.
• Understand levers for product-led growth and retention.
• Work with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities.
• Collaborate with research to evaluate nondeterministic models for high-value outcomes for users.
• Make difficult product decisions with conviction in the face of uncertainty.
• Develop deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation.
• Make complex AI behavior understandable through clear interaction models and thoughtful defaults.
• Drive alignment when improvements span multiple product surfaces, platforms, or teams.
• Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Data-driven flywheels

Prototyping

Data visualization

Data metrics

Agile

Job description

• The Core Experience team owns the foundational interactions that define how people use Perplexity every day. This includes how users begin and continue work, understand what the product is doing, navigate and find what they need, manage their context and preferences, collaborate with others, and return to ongoing work across platforms
• You will identify the highest-leverage user problems, translate them into clear product direction, and partner closely with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver experiences that feel fast, intuitive, cohesive, and dependable. This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, and an exceptional eye for detail
• Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries
• Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision
• Understanding of levers for product-led growth and retention
• Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities
• Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models into the high value outcomes for users
• Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty
• Develop a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation
• Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, and well-designed feedback
• Drive alignment when improvements span multiple product surfaces, platforms, or teams
• Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners

• Strong experience working with data and metrics
• Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership
• 4+ years of product management experience
• Strong experience with product management and leadership
• Experience with productivity and knowledge work products
• Experience with building data driven flywheels for iterative improvement
• Experience with prototyping and data visualization