Perplexity
Content Designer
San Francisco. Posted 10 days ago
The role
You will design and write in-product language across web, mobile, desktop, and voice. You will work on the Design Systems team to shape flows, naming, information architecture, and AI-generated content.
What you will do
- Design and write in-product language across web, mobile, desktop, and voice
- Partner with product designers to shape flows, structure, and information architecture
- Name features and products and own terminology, navigation labels, and taxonomies
- Make complex AI and agent behavior understandable
- Shape how AI-generated content reads by writing and refining prompts and system instructions
- Define content quality standards and help build evaluation criteria, datasets, and reviewer guidance
- Build and maintain voice and tone guidelines, content patterns, and content guidance in the design system
- Use research, data, and experiments to test language
- Partner with brand and marketing to align product language and external voice
- Work with internationalization partners
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in content design, UX writing, or product design, shipping software at scale
- An excellent portfolio that shows how your language shaped product decisions
- Strong UX fundamentals, including interaction design, information architecture, usability, and accessibility
- Good product sensibility and judgment
- Exceptional writing and editing skills
- Strong AI fluency, including hands-on experience writing prompts, working with LLMs, and judging the quality of AI-generated content
- Systems thinking, with experience building content frameworks, style guides, or terminology that scale across teams
- Clear communication
Nice to have
- Experience designing content for AI products, assistants, agents, or conversational interfaces
- Experience with prompt engineering, model evals, or working with research teams on model behavior
- Experience across consumer and enterprise products, including admin, permissions, privacy, and billing flows
- Comfort working in code, such as editing strings, reviewing PRs, or prototyping with AI tools
- Experience with localization and writing for global audiences
About the company
Perplexity is looking for a Content Designer to shape the words across our products. Our product is primarily spoken language and written product.