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Perplexity is scaling its Enterprise Engineering Organization and seeking Engineering Managers with deep expertise in enterprise systems to lead teams building the infrastructure that enables large organizations to adopt AI at scale.
You will combine technical judgment, product intuition, and people leadership to manage and grow a team focused on one of three core areas:
**Enterprise Control Plane**: Building identity, security, and governance foundations (SSO, SCIM, role-based access, customer-managed encryption keys, admin APIs, enforceable policies). Supporting regulated-industry requirements including SOC 2, HIPAA, data governance, and residency with audit logs and analytics.
**Enterprise Data Plane**: Building the connector platform and semantic data layer that provide reliable, permission-aware access to enterprise systems and knowledge, including managed authorization, private-system access, and data freshness.
**Connector Marketplace and Activation**: Building discovery, recommendations, onboarding, and marketplace experiences that help customers find and adopt integrations while expanding the connector ecosystem.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Set technical direction for your team and guide architecture decisions across the enterprise platform
- Build foundational systems enabling large organizations to deploy Perplexity broadly and confidently
- Shape roadmaps with product and design, applying strong technical judgment and product intuition
- Set high standards for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance
- Lead incident response and ensure safe rollout of platform changes and connector migrations
- Partner with engineering teams across the company to ensure extensibility and ease of adoption
- Represent engineering in strategic enterprise customer conversations with sales and customer success
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team
- Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting
- Work with Perplexity's co-founders to deliver enterprise engineering priorities
**Requirements**:
- 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 years as an engineering manager
- Strong technical judgment and experience building enterprise platforms or products, with understanding of reliability, security, and usability requirements
- Domain expertise in at least one of: (1) Enterprise control plane (identity/access management, SSO/SCIM, role-based access, key management, admin APIs, policy enforcement, audit logging, data governance, compliance/residency); (2) Enterprise data plane (connector/integration platforms, authentication, source-system permissions, data synchronization, semantic data layers); or (3) Connector marketplace and activation (discovery/recommendation systems, integration onboarding, marketplace UX, technology partner ecosystems)
- Ability to deliver in fast-moving environment while balancing customer needs, technical quality, and long-term maintainability
- Detail-oriented and quality-focused; customers run critical workflows on Perplexity
- Ability to translate enterprise customer needs into clear technical priorities and communicate tradeoffs
- Experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams with strong management practice (feedback, 1:1s, career development, recruiting/retention)
- Ability to lead parallel technical initiatives, align strong technical perspectives, and make clear prioritization decisions
- Experience with AI/ML products, enterprise AI adoption, or scaling enterprise platforms at a startup is a plus
