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Perplexity is scaling its Enterprise Engineering Organization and seeking Engineering Managers with deep expertise to lead the next wave of growth in enterprise AI adoption.
You will combine technical judgment, product intuition, and people leadership to help large organizations adopt AI at scale. You will lead and grow a team focused on one or more of these core areas:
**Enterprise Control Plane**: Building identity, security, and governance foundations that enable large organizations to deploy Perplexity confidently. This includes SSO, SCIM, role-based access, customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK), admin APIs, and enforceable policies governing access to data, models, and tools. You'll support regulated-industry requirements including SOC 2, HIPAA, data governance, and residency, with audit logs and analytics that give administrators visibility into platform usage.
**Enterprise Data Plane**: Building the connector platform and semantic data layer that give Perplexity 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 working with partners to expand 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 a high bar for reliability, code quality, testing, and maintenance; lead incident response and ensure safe rollouts
- Partner with engineering teams across the company to ensure platforms are extensible and easy to adopt
- Represent engineering in strategic enterprise customer conversations, partnering with sales and customer success
- Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; develop interview pipelines and source candidates
- 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: enterprise control plane (identity/access management, SSO/SCIM, role-based access, key management, admin APIs, policy enforcement, audit logging, data governance, compliance/residency); enterprise data plane (connector/integration platforms, authentication, source-system permissions, data synchronization, semantic data layers); or connector marketplace/activation (discovery systems, recommendations, integration onboarding, marketplace UX, 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 the platform
- 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: clear feedback, effective 1:1s, career development, recruiting and retaining talent
- 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
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