Perplexity

Perplexity

Internal Communications Manager

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 21 days ago
Communication

About the role

  • You will be responsible for what Perplexity employees think, feel, know, and do.
  • This is a 0→1 role with executive exposure from day one.
  • If you believe internal comms is a strategic function and want to shape how an n(1) company talks to itself, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

  • Own change management. Deliver hard and easy news with equal clarity and candor. Earn trust for the message and the messenger..
  • Partner across the company. Work with every team, brief executives directly, and earn standing as a truth-teller.
  • Perplexity is seeking an Internal Communications Manager to build that function from the ground up.
  • You will own how information moves through Perplexity.

Requirements

  • 6+ years in internal, executive, or corporate communications, ideally inside a high-growth technology company.
  • You can ghostwrite for an executive, draft an all-hands, or defuse a sensitive announcement in any voice or format.
  • Proven change-management instincts.
  • You can advise, challenge, and make recommendations to senior leaders without flinching.
  • Comfort using AI tools in your workflow, and the ability to say exactly where and how you use them.
  • A builder, not a maintainer. You've stood a function up, not just kept one running.
  • World-class writing and editing. You can ghostwrite for an executive, draft an all-hands, or defuse a sensitive announcement in any voice or format.
  • Proven change-management instincts. You've delivered complex news to a whole company and kept trust intact.
  • Sharp judgment under pressure. You decide fast, say the hard thing kindly, and hold the line on quality on launch day.
  • Comfort with executives who hold a strong vision. You can advise, challenge, and make recommendations to senior leaders without flinching.
  • Deep familiarity with the rules of corporate comms, and a clear point of view on which ones to break and when.
  • A passion for the truth well-told

Benefits

  • Comfort with executives who hold a strong vision.

This listing is sourced directly from Perplexity's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.