Perplexity AI
Design Engineer, Growth & Marketing
San Francisco
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About the role
- You'll sit shoulder to shoulder with brand designers, PMMs, growth, and content teams, shipping product launch pages, campaign landing pages, and the components and tooling that let those teams move fast without lowering the bar.
- This is a hands-on role for someone with real taste, sharp attention to detail, and the speed to turn a Figma file, a Slack thread, or a rough sketch into a polished, shipped page quickly.
- You can take a rough direction and turn it into something worth shipping. - Improve the tools around the work: CMS workflows, i18n, SEO, experimentation, and internal tooling for marketing self-serve.
Responsibilities
- Ship product launch pages and evergreen marketing pages for products like Comet, Computer, Deep Research, Search, and Hub. Own the work from Figma handoff to production.
- Partner with brand designers to build interactive experiences that make the site feel alive and drive engagement.
- Maintain and extend our brand design system and component library, keeping Figma and production in sync so brand and creative can scaffold pages with guardrails.
- A portfolio site that shows your previous work on marketing sites and design work.
- Experience maintaining a reusable component library and sweating the design details in code.
- Own the work from Figma handoff to production.
- Perplexity is looking for a Design Engineer to help turn perplexity.com http://perplexity.com into a real growth engine, not a pile of one-off pages.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a front-end or design engineer, ideally on a marketing or growth site.
- You can take a rough direction and turn it into something worth shipping.
- You know what the platform can do and you stay current on what's new.
- You can tell the difference between "almost right" and "actually right," and your work reflects it.
- Stellar communication skills and a track record of working effectively in cross-functional teams.
- You can defend a decision, push back constructively, and explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience running A/B tests and reading experiments results in a growth context.
- Knowledge of SEO principles, structured data, and localization workflows.
- Experience with web animations (GSAP, Motion, Web Animations API), 3D libraries, or interactive storytelling.
- Experience working with a headless CMS (Sanity, Contentful).
Skills
- React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Sanity
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