Engineering Manager (Enterprise)

Perplexity is continuing to rapidly scale our Enterprise Engineering Organization and seeking Engineering Managers with deep expertise across the Enterprise domain to help lead the next wave of growth. As an Enterprise Engineering Manager, you will combine technical judgment, product intuition, and people leadership to help large organizations adopt AI at scale. We are hiring across the enterprise control plane, enterprise data plane, and connector marketplace and activation. Enterprise Control Plane: Building the identity, security, and governance foundations that enable large organizations to deploy Perplexity confidently, including SSO, SCIM, role-based access, customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK), admin APIs, and enforceable policies governing access to data, models, and tools. Supporting regulated-industry requirements, including SOC 2, HIPAA, data governance, and residency, with audit logs and analytics that give administrators visibility into how Perplexity is used. Enterprise Data Plane: Building the connector platform and semantic data layer that give Computer 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. Across these areas, you will translate enterprise customer needs into scalable technical solutions across Perplexity's products.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for your team and guide architecture decisions across the enterprise platform; Build the foundational systems that enable 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 platform changes and connector migrations are rolled out safely; Partner with engineering teams across the company to ensure the platforms we build are extensible and easy to adopt; Represent engineering in strategic enterprise customer conversations, partnering with sales and customer success to understand requirements and remove barriers to adoption; Oversee hiring, onboarding, and mentorship for a rapidly growing team; Develop rigorous interview pipelines and work closely with recruiting to source candidates; Work with Perplexity's co-founders to deliver enterprise engineering priorities

Requirements

Strong technical judgment and experience building enterprise platforms or products, with an understanding of the reliability, security, and usability requirements of enterprise customers; Domain expertise in at least one of: enterprise control plane, enterprise data plane, or connector marketplace and activation; Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment while balancing customer needs, technical quality, and long-term maintainability; Detail-oriented and quality-focused; Ability to translate enterprise customer needs into clear technical priorities and communicate tradeoffs effectively; Experience building and managing high-performing engineering teams, with a strong management practice grounded in clear feedback, effective 1:1s, career development, and recruiting and retaining high-caliber talent; Ability to lead parallel technical initiatives, align strong technical perspectives, and make clear prioritization and tradeoff decisions; 8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 4 of those years as an engineering manager

Nice to have

Experience with AI/ML products; Enterprise AI adoption experience; Experience scaling enterprise platforms at a startup