Product Manager, Core Experience

Perplexity AI

$135K — $160K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with product management and leadership
  • Proficient in working with data and metrics
  • Familiar with productivity and knowledge work products
  • Skilled in prototyping and data visualization
  • Experience building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvement
  • Thrives in small, agile teams with initiative and ownership
  • Minimum of 4 years of product management experience

Responsibilities

  • Anticipate opportunities for innovation in enterprise industries
  • Envision and deliver a long-term vision for user experiences
  • Understand product-led growth and retention levers
  • Collaborate with engineering and design to align product expectations
  • Evaluate and guide research to achieve high value user outcomes
  • Simplify complex AI behaviors through clear interaction models
  • Drive alignment across multiple product platforms and teams
  • Communicate product decisions and progress to leadership and partners

Benefits

  • Join a team focused on foundational user interactions
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams including design and engineering
  • Engage in innovative and creative problem-solving
  • Opportunity for ownership in a fast-paced environment
  • Contribute to the enhancement of product-led growth and user retention strategies
Full Job Description
Product Managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the core agentic and search experiences. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have a passion in a particular industry that they are domain experts in: in the application please highlight which industry you are most interested in innovating.

The Role

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.

What You'll Do
  • 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.


Qualifications

  • Strong experience with product management and leadership.
  • Strong experience working with data and metrics.
  • Experience with productivity and knowledge work products.
  • Experience with prototyping and data visualization.
  • Experience with 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.


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