Sr. Business Recruiter, Communications & Marketing

The role

You will lead full-cycle recruiting for Communications and Marketing teams. You will partner with leaders to define searches, build talent maps, and evaluate candidates through portfolios and work samples.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting across the Communications & Marketing team.
• Partner with Communications and Marketing leaders from intake through close.
• Build talent maps across technology companies, consumer brands, enterprise software, media organizations, and agencies.
• Develop sourcing strategies specific to each discipline.
• Evaluate candidates by reviewing portfolios, writing samples, and campaign context.
• Help hiring teams build structured work-sample and portfolio reviews.
• Give leaders direct reads on pipeline quality, candidate tradeoffs, compensation, and the state of the market.
• Represent Perplexity clearly and credibly.
• Run a thoughtful candidate process from first conversation through close.
• Use AI tools for research, sourcing, outreach, and recruiting operations.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including meaningful depth across Communications and Marketing.
• Experience hiring across several of the following areas: Product Marketing, Corporate or Executive Communications, Editorial, Content, Social Media, Brand, Growth, Demand Generation, Field Marketing,
• A track record of partnering closely with senior Communications or Marketing leaders on important and difficult searches.
• Strong functional judgment.
• Comfort evaluating portfolios, writing samples, campaign work, and business results alongside the hiring team.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• Experience recruiting in a high-growth startup or similarly fast-moving environment.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to improve sourcing, research, outreach, or recruiting workflows.
• Fluency with modern ATS and recruiting systems.
• Sound judgment, attention to detail, and the willingness to push back when the market or candidate evidence does not support the original brief.
• The ability to manage several distinct searches without giving candidates or hiring teams a generic experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ashby is preferred

About the company

Perplexity is hiring an experienced Communications & Marketing Recruiter to help build the teams responsible for how our company and products are positioned, launched, explained, and experienced.