Commercial Sales Manager
Perplexity AI · New York City · Austin
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Applied AIremotemanager$300k–$380k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead a team of Commercial AEs selling Perplexity Enterprise and Computer.
- Own team revenue targets and drive efficient, high-velocity sales cycles.
- Convert self-serve customers into Enterprise relationships with your team.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A hands-on sales leader who thrives in high-growth, high-velocity environments and loves coaching SMB sellers to create pipeline and close efficiently.
Requirements
- 5+ years of SaaS sales experience selling to small and mid-sized organizations, with 2+ years directly managing quota-carrying Account Executives
- Track record of meeting or exceeding team revenue targets in a high-growth environment
- Experience hiring, ramping, and developing sellers
- Experience coaching teams to generate pipeline through outbound and product-led signals in a high-velocity motion
- Strong command of Salesforce, pipeline management, and forecasting
- Background selling technical products, ideally AI, data, or infrastructure
- Comfort operating without an established playbook
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