Associate Product Marketing Manager

Perplexity perplexity.ai Open · verified Sep 13, 2026

San Francisco New York Full-time Manager Product Marketing

Mid-level Product Marketing role at Perplexity. San Francisco · full-time · $135,000–$180,000 base.

SalaryStated by Perplexity

$135,000 – $180,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

This role, from PerplexityOur estimate for the market: $157,500–$203,750

Below the market median of $177,500 for mid-level product marketing roles in San Francisco.

Worked out from 55 postings that stated pay, median $177,500. Last updated Sep 11, 2026.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Become marketing’s deepest product expert by testing features, building workflows, and working with product teams
Make complex capabilities easy to understand, including their use cases, mechanics, and value
Run webinars from planning through follow-up, with demos, onboarding, and feature education
Create guides, videos, demo paths, and use-case resources that help customers work better
Connect education and launches to adoption results while coordinating teams, timelines, and experiments

What you bring

At least two years in product marketing, customer education, business development, or a related field
Explain technical ideas clearly for new users, power users, and administrators
Show strong teaching, storytelling, data interpretation, and live demonstration skills
Learn unfamiliar products quickly and improve rapidly
Stay effective when priorities and details are unclear or changing

Who this fits

You’ll suit this San Francisco full-time role if you enjoy mastering complex products, teaching users, and improving adoption through clear guidance. You’ll work well in fast-moving, ambiguous settings where learning speed and measurable user outcomes matter.

From the employer

Perplexity is revolutionizing how companies get work done. We are seeking an Associate Product Marketing Manager to join our team and serve as the bridge between how our products actually work and how the world learns to use them. You will develop the deepest product understanding on the team and translate it into webinars and education materials that inspire adoption and drive growth.

If you have a passion for understanding how things work, thrive in taking something complex and making it simple, and want to build a world-class product education engine that turns new users into power users, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Know the product cold. Develop a deeper working knowledge of our products than anyone else in marketing, using every feature the day it ships, building the workflows yourself, and staying close to the teams that built them.
Turn complexity into clarity. Transform complex product capabilities into simple, specific, and accurate explanations, defining not just what we built, but how it works, when to use it, and why it matters.
Teach at scale. Own product webinars end to end, from content and live demos to delivery and follow-up, spanning onboarding series, feature deep-dives, and use-case walkthroughs.
Build the education engine. Create the product education materials our users learn from: how-to guides, demo flows, video walkthroughs, and use-case libraries that make customers materially better at their jobs.
Obsess over the user. Maintain a sharp, real-time view of what users misunderstand and where they get stuck, ensuring our education remains grounded in how people actually use the product rather than how we assume they do.
Measure outcomes, not just outputs. Tie webinars and education content to tangible activation, adoption, and retention, running lightweight experiments to iterate fast on format, content, and delivery.
Get products to launch. Own and coordinate the cross-functional workstreams that take products from built to launch, keeping teams aligned on dependencies, timelines, and the work needed to bring each launch to market.

Qualifications

2-3 years of experience in product marketing, customer education, business development, or a related role, ideally within a high-growth technology company, or work that proves the skill regardless of title.
Proven ability to synthesize complex technical concepts into simple, specific, and provable explanations that travel across new users, power users, and admins.
Genuine obsession with product: you explore every setting, test every new feature, and can explain what a product does better than the team that built it.
Sharp teaching and storytelling skills grounded in data, with the ability to summarize how a feature works in a single sentence and demonstrate it live.
High slope: you learn unfamiliar products and domains fast, and your rate of improvement is your standout trait.
Extreme comfort delivering clarity in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.