Product Marketing Manager, API

Perplexity is revolutionizing how companies get work done, and increasingly, how developers build the next generation of AI-native products on top of our search and answer infrastructure. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, API to serve as the strategic bridge between our API product reality and market impact, driving developer adoption and platform growth through effective campaigns and clear communication. This role requires transforming complex product capabilities into a market narrative and ensuring the success of product launches.

Responsibilities:

• Turn ambiguity into clarity. Transform complex product capabilities into a crisp market point of view, defining not just what we built, but who it's for, what it replaces, and why it wins
• Understand developers and shape the platform narrative. Maintain a deep, hands-on view of how developers evaluate and build with AI APIs, and translate that understanding into positioning, demos, reference apps, and use-case showcases that make it obvious what teams can build on the Perplexity API
• Drive API product adoption. Own the metrics that matter for a developer platform, including signups, first successful API call, activation, weekly active developers, and revenue, and build the programs that move them
• Build and manage developer campaigns. Plan and run integrated campaigns across owned channels, paid, social, email, events, hackathons, and partner ecosystems, defining the brief, commissioning assets, and reporting on funnel performance
• Drive launches as a system, not an event. Orchestrate product introductions by defining success metrics and sequencing readiness across teams, ensuring enablement and proof points land simultaneously with the launch
• Make others materially better at their jobs. Equip customer-facing teams with 'talk tracks that close,' handling objections and providing competitive intelligence that reflects the actual battlefield
• Obsess over the customer and the market. Maintain a sharp, real-time view of buyer needs and alternatives, ensuring our narrative remains grounded in truth and provable value rather than empty hype
• Measure outcomes, not just outputs. Tie messaging and launches to tangible pipeline influence, activation, and retention, running lightweight experiments to iterate fast on pricing, packaging, and positioning