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AI Strategist, Financial Services

Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City

Applied AIremotesenior$215k–$250k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agentic AI platform for professional finance workflows.
  • Partner with hedge funds, PE and asset managers to automate investing.
  • Lead demos for screening, diligence, earnings and portfolio monitoring.

What they offer

  • Offers Equity

Ideal candidate

Former banker, investor, or researcher who lives front-office workflows and thrives turning ambiguous client problems into shipped AI solutions with high agency and commercial drive.

Requirements

  • 3+ years in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, or institutional asset management
  • 6+ years total spanning finance plus technical GTM, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or applied AI
  • Deep fluency in front-office workflows: screening, comps, diligence, earnings, research synthesis, portfolio monitoring
  • Strong intuition for AI products, agents, and workflows and ability to understand technical systems
  • Comfortable scoping builds with Forward Deployed Engineers and translating requirements into specs
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problems into scoped deployment plans with success metrics
  • Strong commercial instincts and comfort operating with MDs, partners, PMs, CIOs, and CTOs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication for proposals, memos, scopes, and launch narratives

Lab profile

About Perplexity AI

Builds AI search answers and agentic Computer to turn knowledge into action.

What they build

  • Perplexity AI answer engine
  • Perplexity Computer agentic assistant
  • Comet AI browser and desktop apps

Known for

  • Agentic AI and agent capabilities
  • Applied AI product engineering
  • Cross-platform apps across web, mobile and desktop
  • Multimodal AI and integrations

Key facts

  • Founded in 2022
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Serves millions of users daily
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