The Core Experience team owns the foundational interactions that define how people use Perplexity every day. This includes how users begin and continue work, understand what the product is doing, navigate and find what they need, manage their context and preferences, collaborate with others, and return to ongoing work across platforms
You will identify the highest-leverage user problems, translate them into clear product direction, and partner closely with design, engineering, data science, and research to deliver experiences that feel fast, intuitive, cohesive, and dependable. This role requires strong product judgment, deep user empathy, analytical rigor, and an exceptional eye for detail
Anticipate opportunities for innovation and value in enterprise industries
Envision new experiences and deliver a long-term vision
Understanding of levers for product-led growth and retention
Work closely with engineering and design to align product expectations and capabilities
Work with research to evaluate and steer nondeterministic models into the high value outcomes for users
Have conviction to make difficult product decisions in the face of uncertainty
Develop a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and friction through direct product use, qualitative research, product data, and experimentation
Make complex AI behavior understandable and controllable through clear interaction models, thoughtful defaults, and well-designed feedback
Drive alignment when improvements span multiple product surfaces, platforms, or teams
Communicate product decisions, tradeoffs, progress, and learnings clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners