Member of Technical Staff (Engineering Lead, Developer Experience & Relations)

About the role

Perplexity is seeking an energetic leader to oversee the developer experience across our API Platform. In this role, you'll manage our developer experience end-to-end and own the arc of how developers discover, adopt, and succeed with Perplexity's APIs. You'll combine strong technical expertise with a high bar for craft and a passion for community building. You will personally serve as the face of Perplexity to developers, who will come to trust you as a champion for their needs and priorities. The initiatives you lead will bolster Perplexity as the platform of choice for developers seeking to build performant, efficient, and accurate AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the developer experience portfolio across Perplexity API Platform.
• Craft and curate our developer-facing presence across docs, SDKs, CLIs, MCPs, and Agent Skills, with meticulous taste and attention to detail.
• Build and nurture a thriving developer community that evangelizes Perplexity's API offerings and broadens conceptions of what's possible.
• Represent the voice of the developer by maintaining a panoptic understanding of customer priorities, success patterns, and friction points.
• Lead public engagement across developer events, social media, forums, and other high-signal channels.
• Foster an ecosystem of community resources and examples that set the standard for how each API offering can be most effectively used.
• Define metrics for developer health and satisfaction, and drive continuous improvement across our API Platform.
• Run workshops, hackathons, and other participatory programs to convert curiosity into tinkering, tinkering into deployment, and deployment into customer wins.
• Partner with fellow technical staff, GTM, support, and other cross-functional collaborators to ensure developers succeed across every industry and deployment scale.

Requirements

• Substantial experience working on or adjacent to developer-facing products in a technical capacity, preferably with a track record of growing adoption.
• Strong empathy for developers across experience levels and technology stacks (past developer relations experience is highly relevant).
• Detailed and accurate mental model of the developer ecosystem: in particular, how developers learn about, evaluate, and select API products.
• Well-calibrated taste for API ergonomics; experience prototyping and developing API-based products end-to-end.
• Sound understanding of the modern AI technical stack, major players/technologies at each layer, and differentiation opportunities.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with particular savviness in developer-facing mediums (technical articles, documentation, conference talks, social media, etc.).
• Ability to balance aggressive use of frontier AI agents with the need for personality and taste.
• High intrinsically-enforced standards for the craft and quality of your work; an eagle eye for imperfection and rough edges (you complain before our customers do).
• Eagerness and comfort to wear many hats in service of a world-class developer experience.

Pay

Compensation Range: $220K - $405K