Product Manager (Mobile Apps)

Perplexity AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity AI is seeking a Mobile Product Manager to own the end-to-end Perplexity experience on iOS and Android. You will identify high-impact mobile user problems, translate them into clear product direction, and collaborate with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive, cohesive, and dependable experiences.

The role emphasizes shipping high-quality consumer mobile products across platforms, with strong product judgment and a keen eye for mobile constraints

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience.
• Strong experience with product management and leadership.
• Deep understanding of native mobile interaction patterns and platform capabilities.
• Experience shipping and scaling consumer mobile products across iOS or Android.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Perplexity experience across iOS and Android.
• Identify highest-leverage mobile user problems and translate into product direction.
• Partner with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive experiences.
• Envision new mobile experiences and deliver long-term visions for iOS and Android.
• Understand levers for mobile product-led growth, engagement and retention.
• Communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.

Skills

Product management

Mobile platform constraints

User empathy

Data-driven decisions

Leadership

Experimentation

4+ years PM experience

Job description

• The Mobile Apps team owns the end-to-end Perplexity experience across iOS and Android. This includes how users discover and onboard into the product, search and take action on the go, use voice, camera, notifications, widgets, and other native capabilities, manage subscriptions and preferences, and return to ongoing work across devices
• You will identify the highest-leverage mobile 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
• 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

This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, fluency in mobile platform constraints and opportunities, and an exceptional eye for detailThrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownershipExperience with rapid mobile prototyping, experimentation, and data visualization4+ years of product management experienceStrong experience with product management and leadershipDeep understanding of native mobile interaction patterns, platform capabilities, performance, and reliabilityExperience building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvementExperience shipping and scaling high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or AndroidStrong experience working with data and metrics