Product Manager, Mobile Apps

Details

Product Managers at Perplexity work closely with design and engineering to build native mobile experiences that bring agentic AI and search into people's everyday lives. The Mobile Apps team owns the end-to-end Perplexity experience across iOS and Android, including discovery and onboarding, mobile search and actions, voice, camera, notifications, widgets, subscriptions, preferences, and cross-device continuity.

The role involves identifying high-leverage mobile user problems, translating them into clear product direction, and partnering with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver fast, intuitive, cohesive, and dependable experiences. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong product judgment, user empathy, analytical rigor, fluency in mobile platform constraints and opportunities, and exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• 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 toward high-value outcomes for mobile users.
• 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, trade-offs, 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 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.
• Ability to thrive in a small, agile team with initiative and a desire for ownership.
• 4+ years of product management experience.
• Applicants should highlight the mobile apps or platform experiences they are most proud of shipping.

Mission

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

Benefits

• Salary: $230,000–$330,000 USD per year.
• Equity offered.
• Full-time U.S. employees receive benefits including health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care accounts.
• International employees receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.
• Final offer amounts depend on factors including experience and expertise.