Product Marketing Manager

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a Senior Product Marketing Manager to bridge product reality with market impact in San Francisco. You will shape external narratives, defining the who, what, and why to drive adoption and growth.

You will lead launches as systems, coordinating success metrics, enablement, and proof points across teams to ensure synchronized impact and market readiness.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product marketing experience in high-growth technology companies.
• Proven track record turning complex technical concepts into simple, specific narratives used across executives, sales, and partner teams.
• Familiarity with traditional marketing rules with a drive to push boundaries.
• World-class storytelling skills grounded in data, able to summarize a product's value in a single sentence and defend it with evidence.
• Extreme comfort delivering clarity in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguity into clarity by transforming complex product capabilities into a crisp market point of view, defining who it’s for, what it replaces, and why it wins.
• Drive launches as a system, coordinating readiness and enablement across teams so messaging lands with the launch.
• Equip customer-facing teams with talking points that close, addressing objections and providing competitive intelligence.
• Maintain a real-time view of buyer needs and alternatives, grounding narrative in truth and provable value.
• Tie messaging and launches to pipeline influence, activation, and retention, iterating on pricing, packaging, and positioning.
• Lead through alignment by surfacing risks early and coordinating product, sales, and marketing efforts.

Skills

End-to-end launches

Narrative synthesis

Data-driven storytelling

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Perplexity is revolutionizing how companies get work done. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager to join our team and serve as the strategic bridge between our product reality and market impact. You will architect the external narrative of our products and amplify their value to inspire adoption and drive growth.

If you have a passion for creating clarity when things are messy, thrive in turning ambiguity into a definitive point of view, and want to build a world-class marketing engine that drives launches as systems rather than events, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguity into clarity. Transform complex product capabilities into a crisp market point of view, defining not just what we built, but who it’s for, what it replaces, and why it wins.
• Drive launches as a system, not an event. Orchestrate product introductions by defining success metrics and sequencing readiness across teams, ensuring enablement and proof points land simultaneously with the launch.
• Make others materially better at their jobs. Equip customer-facing teams with "talk tracks that close," handling objections and providing competitive intelligence that reflects the actual battlefield.
• Obsess over the customer and the market. Maintain a sharp, real-time view of buyer needs and alternatives, ensuring our narrative remains grounded in truth and provable value rather than empty hype.
• Measure outcomes, not just outputs. Tie messaging and launches to tangible pipeline influence, activation, and retention, running lightweight experiments to iterate fast on pricing, packaging, and positioning.
• Influence without authority. Lead through alignment by pre-wiring decisions, surfacing risks early, and managing trade-offs to keep product, sales, and marketing moving in lockstep.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product marketing, ideally within a high-growth technology company where you have owned end-to-end product launches.
• Proven track record of synthesizing complex technical concepts into simple, specific, and provable narratives that travel across executive, sales, and partner teams.
• Deep familiarity with the rules of traditional marketing with an interest in breaking them.
• World-class storytelling skills grounded in data, with the ability to summarize a product’s value in a single sentence and defend it with evidence.
• Extreme comfort delivering clarity in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.

Compensation Range: $220K - $290K