Product Manager, Core Experience

Details

In 2026, Perplexity launched Computer, a product for the era of agentic AI. The company is expanding beyond its millions of daily users for research, shopping, investing, and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.

Product Managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering, focusing on core agentic and search experiences. The ideal candidate has strong communication and writing skills, the ability to envision innovative technology, and a willingness to reimagine work to be more efficient and creative. Candidates should have a passion for a particular industry and be able to highlight the industry they 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 high-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.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries.
• Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision.
• Understand the 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 toward high-value outcomes for users.
• Make difficult product decisions with conviction 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.

Requirements

• 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 building data-driven flywheels for iterative improvement.
• Ability to thrive in a small, agile team with initiative and a desire for ownership.
• 4+ years of product management experience.

Mission

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