Product Manager, AI Capabilities

The role

Product Managers work with design and engineering to focus on foundational AI capabilities. You will identify user and platform problems to deliver experiences for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects.

What you will do

• Anticipate opportunities for innovation in reusable, composable AI capabilities.
• Envision and deliver a long-term vision for Skills, collaboration, artifact generation, and Projects.
• Understand levers for capability discovery, adoption, reuse, sharing, and ecosystem growth.
• Work 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.
• Make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty.
• Develop understanding of how individuals and teams build repeatable workflows with AI.
• Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through interaction models.
• Drive alignment when capabilities span multiple products or teams.
• Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings to leadership.

Required qualifications

• 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.

About the company

Perplexity's mission is to power curiosity. They have scaled beyond research, shopping, investing and curiosity into a new paradigm of using AI to transform knowledge into action.