Product Manager, AI Capabilities

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$230k–$330k

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Perplexity Product Manager at Perplexity focused on foundational AI capabilities including Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects. Drives product direction to create powerful, extensible, and dependable AI experiences.

Responsibilities

The AI Capabilities team owns the product structures that turn intelligence into repeatable, composable experiences. This includes Skills that teach Computer how to work, collaboration that helps people and agents build together, artifact generation that turns ideas into polished outputs, and Projects that organize context, knowledge, and ongoing work.
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 into high-value outcomes for users.
Have conviction to 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.

Qualification

Experience with agentic systemsThrives in a smallLearnBuildIntegrate

Required

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.
Thrives in a small, agile team: has initiative and desire for ownership.
4+ years of product management experience.
Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity. Curious people are the people who drive change in the world. Driving change is a continuous cycle of learning, building, and integrating.
Learn: curious people constantly learn new things by asking more. They question the status quo in their own expertise and they constantly learn outside of it. Research is essential to them and never ending.
Build: curious people make and create things, to show the world their new answers to problems no one else ever questioned. They take action on what they've learned. Makers need tools to create their products, their companies, their reality.
Integrate: they must interact with the world as it is to drive change and adoption. True leaders do not simply build something and hope. They must have armies of agents and workers who can constantly work in millions of small ways.