Product Manager, AI Capabilities

Details

Perplexity launched Computer in 2026 as a product for the era of agentic AI. Product Managers work closely with design and engineering on foundational AI capabilities that make products more powerful, extensible, collaborative, and useful. The ideal candidate has strong communication and writing skills, can envision innovative technology, and is passionate about turning frontier AI capabilities into coherent products.

The Role

The AI Capabilities team owns product structures that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. These include Skills that teach Computer how to work, collaboration features that help people and agents build together, artifact generation that turns ideas into polished outputs, and Projects that organize context, knowledge, and ongoing work.

You will identify high-leverage user and platform problems, translate them into clear product direction, and partner with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver experiences that are powerful, understandable, extensible, and dependable. The role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, fluency in agentic systems, and the ability to turn technical primitives into usable products.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in reusable, composable AI capabilities.
• Envision and deliver a long-term vision for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects.
• Understand the levers for capability discovery, adoption, reuse, sharing, and ecosystem growth.
• Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations with model, tool, and platform capabilities.
• Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models, tools, and agents toward high-value user outcomes.
• Make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty.
• Develop a deep understanding of how individuals and teams create, customize, collaborate, and build repeatable workflows with AI.
• Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, permissions, and well-designed feedback.
• Drive alignment when capabilities span Computer, Search, Projects, artifacts, connectors, or multiple teams.
• Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Strong experience with product management and leadership.
• Strong experience working with data and metrics.
• Experience building AI-native productivity, collaboration, platform, or developer-facing products.
• Experience with agentic systems, tool use, evaluations, extensibility, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience with rapid prototyping and designing systems that produce high-quality artifacts.
• Experience building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvement.
• Ability to thrive in a small, agile team with initiative and ownership.
• 4+ years of product management experience.

Mission

Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity through a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating. Curious people learn by asking questions, build tools and products to act on what they learn, and integrate with the world to drive change and adoption.