# Program Manager, Talent Acquisition

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $180K - $200K
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Perplexity is scaling at a pace few companies ever experience, and talent is the surface where our biggest bets get won or lost. We're hiring a Program Manager to sit at the center of that motion, owning the mission-critical, cross-functional programs that shape how we plan, prioritize, and hire.

This is a uniquely visible seat, reserved for operators who thrive in ambiguity and have a track record of driving companywide initiatives to measurable outcomes. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with recruiting leadership, executives, and cross-functional partners to architect the systems, operating rhythms, and decision-making frameworks that let the company move faster and with more clarity. When a complex, high-stakes program needs an owner, you're the person leadership turns to.

## Responsibilities

- Own Perplexity's most consequential talent programs end-to-end, from ambiguous mandate to shipped outcome

- Partner directly with executives and recruiting leadership to turn strategy into programs with clear owners, milestones, and accountability

- Drive cross-functional initiatives across Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leadership, aligning stakeholders and clearing blockers before they escalate

- Design the operating cadence of the org: planning cycles, prioritization, reporting rhythms, and executive updates that keep leadership decisive

- Build the systems, tooling, and workflows that let recruiting scale, automating the repetitive so human judgment goes to the highest-leverage work

- Stand up the metrics and dashboards that turn hiring data into faster, sharper decisions

- Anticipate risk on the highest-visibility programs, communicate crisply under pressure, and drive to resolution when priorities shift

- Set the bar for program excellence and codify repeatable playbooks the rest of the company can adopt

## Requirements

- 7+ years of program or project management experience, including ownership of companywide, mission-critical initiatives

- Direct experience partnering with and presenting to executives on high-stakes, cross-functional work

- Track record of driving ambiguous programs to measurable outcomes in fast-paced, rapidly scaling environments

- Operational rigor. You build order out of chaos and design systems that outlast you

- Strong analytical instincts, with the ability to structure messy data into clear direction for leadership

- Sharp communication and stakeholder judgment, with the discretion to operate on sensitive, high-visibility work

- A builder's mindset and a bias for action, aligned with Perplexity's ethos of building what hasn't been built before

- Recruiting, talent, or People-org program experience is a plus, but we're optimizing for the best operators first

## Compensation

- $180K – $200K • Offers Equity

**U.S. Benefits**

Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.

**International Benefits**

Full-time employees outside the U.S. enjoy a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region of residence.

## Skills

### Required
- program management
- project management
- cross-functional work
- executive communication
- analytical skills
- operational rigor

### Nice to have
- recruiting
- talent
- People-org program experience

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