Product Manager, Platform

New York City · San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

Perplexity is seeking a Product Manager, Platform to own product strategy and execution on technical products and platforms.
This role involves turning recurring needs into shared services, tools, and workflows that reduce duplicated work.
The position is based in New York City or San Francisco.

Understand the needs of the teams that use our platforms and the customers who depend on them.
Use product data, operational feedback, and recurring quality issues to identify the highest-impact problems, and then solve them.
Turn recurring needs into shared services, tools, and workflows that reduce duplicated work.
Exercise judgment about when to build a reusable capability, use an existing solution, or take a simpler approach.
Work directly with product, engineering, and operational teams to understand their workflows, identify recurring problems, and anticipate the capabilities they will need next.
Prioritize platform investments across new product enablement, reliability, efficiency, and technical debt.
Make clear tradeoffs between near-term delivery and long-term flexibility.
Define and track success through business impact, reliability, cost to serve, and reduced manual work.
Partner closely with engineering on technical tradeoffs, build-versus-buy decisions, and rollout plans.
Write clear requirements and drive delivery from problem definition through launch and iteration.

Experience owning product strategy and execution on technical products and platforms, or shared systems used by multiple teams.
Strong technical fluency to reason about APIs, data flows, system dependencies, and failure modes.
Strong analytical skills to investigate problems independently, define meaningful metrics, and evaluate platform investment impact.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
High ownership and sound judgment in a fast-moving environment.
A focus on customer outcomes and product quality.