Lead Product Designer, Mobile (Native & Mobile)
Perplexity AI · San Francisco · New York City
Applied AIremotelead$200k–$260k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own iPhone and Android design for Perplexity's Native & Mobile team.
- Design phone-desktop handoff for agents running minutes or hours.
- Prototype on device early and ship working changes with engineers.
Ideal candidate
Seasoned native mobile designer who obsesses over craft, systems thinking, and shipping great software. You thrive with autonomy and love making complex agentic behavior feel simple and trustworthy.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience shipping native mobile apps for consumer or prosumer products
- Deep fluency in iOS conventions, navigation, gestures, and system components
- Working knowledge of Android and Material conventions with judgment on cross-platform adaptation
- Experience designing multi-device products or deep OS integrations
- Excellent interaction, visual, and motion skills with detail at small sizes
- Comfort prototyping on device with coding agents and landing changes in production code
- Systems thinker who simplifies complex, asynchronous behavior
- Excellent communicator comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity
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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