Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Perplexity AI

$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with product management and leadership.
  • Strong experience working with data and metrics.
  • Experience shipping and scaling high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or Android.
  • Deep understanding of native mobile interaction patterns, platform capabilities, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience with rapid mobile prototyping, experimentation, and data visualization.
  • 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 in mobile AI usage.
  • Envision and deliver a long-term mobile experience across iOS and Android.
  • Understand and leverage mobile product-led growth, engagement, and retention strategies.
  • Partner with engineering and design to align product with native platform constraints.
  • Evaluate research to guide AI models for high-value mobile user outcomes.
  • Simplify complex AI behavior for user interactions on mobile.
  • Drive alignment across teams for improvements spanning multiple platforms.
  • Effectively communicate product decisions and progress to leadership.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to shape the direction of cutting-edge mobile AI experiences.
  • Engagement in innovative product development for mobile users.
  • Possibility to lead initiatives in a dynamic, agile setting.
Full Job Description
Product Managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on the native mobile experiences that bring agentic AI and search into people's everyday lives. The ideal candidate should have strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and a willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Ideal candidates have deep experience building exceptional mobile products: in the application, please highlight the mobile apps or platform experiences you are most proud of shipping.

The Role

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. This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, fluency in mobile platform constraints and opportunities, and an exceptional eye for detail.

What You'll Do
  • 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.


Qualifications
  • Strong experience with product management and leadership.
  • Strong experience working with data and metrics.
  • Experience shipping and scaling high-quality consumer mobile products across iOS or Android.
  • Deep understanding of native mobile interaction patterns, platform capabilities, performance, and reliability.
  • Experience with rapid mobile prototyping, experimentation, and data visualization.
  • 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.

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