Perplexity

Perplexity

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Internal Communications Manager

Posted Aug 5, 2026

Role at a glance

Salary
$130K – $190K/yr
Location
San Francisco, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Experience
6+ years in internal, executive, or corporate communications

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Role Summary

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The Internal Communications Manager will build Perplexity’s internal communications function and shape how information moves through the company. The role partners across teams and with executives to keep employees informed and communicate company decisions and changes.

What You'll Do

  • Listen across the company and recommend what to amplify or address.
  • Plan, execute, measure, and evolve all-hands meetings and executive content.
  • Turn strategy, launches, and difficult decisions into clear messages for employees.
  • Establish communication channels, cadences, and norms to keep employees informed.
  • Lead change communications and deliver news with clarity and candor.
  • Help maintain the company’s voice and culture as it grows.

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Qualifications

6+ years in internal, executive, or corporate communications; experience building a function; excellent writing and editing, including executive ghostwriting; change-management experience; strong judgment under pressure; ability to advise and challenge senior leaders; familiarity with corporate communications; comfort explaining how AI tools are used in the workflow; passion for truth-telling.

Required

  • 6+ years in internal, executive, or corporate communications
  • A builder who has stood a function up, not just maintained one
  • World-class writing and editing, including executive ghostwriting and sensitive announcements
  • Proven change-management instincts and experience delivering complex company-wide news while maintaining trust
  • Sharp judgment under pressure
  • Comfort advising and challenging senior leaders
  • Deep familiarity with corporate communications
  • Comfort using AI tools in the workflow and ability to explain where and how they are used

Preferred

  • Ideally inside a high-growth technology company

Original job description

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Perplexity is seeking an Internal Communications Manager to build that function from the ground up. You will own how information moves through Perplexity. You will be responsible for what Perplexity employees think, feel, know, and do. This is a 0→1 role with executive exposure from day one.

If you believe internal comms is a strategic function and want to shape how an n(1) company talks to itself, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

  • Listen and learn across the company. Understand what’s happening, how, and why in order to make sound recommendations on what should be amplified or addressed.

  • Run all-hands and executive content. Planning, execution, measurement, and evolution.

  • Internal storytelling. Turn strategy, launches, and hard decisions into messages that bring clarity to every team.

  • Be the signal in noise. Cut through Slack sprawl. Establish the channels, cadences, and norms that keep a fast company informed without drowning it.

  • Own change management. Deliver hard and easy news with equal clarity and candor. Earn trust for the message and the messenger..

  • Protect the culture. Words set the tone. Make sure ours sound like us as we grow.

  • Measure what matters. Perplexity is a high-velocity high-humility organization.

  • Partner across the company. Work with every team, brief executives directly, and earn standing as a truth-teller.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in internal, executive, or corporate communications, ideally inside a high-growth technology company.

  • A builder, not a maintainer. You've stood a function up, not just kept one running.

  • World-class writing and editing. You can ghostwrite for an executive, draft an all-hands, or defuse a sensitive announcement in any voice or format.

  • Proven change-management instincts. You've delivered complex news to a whole company and kept trust intact.

  • Sharp judgment under pressure. You decide fast, say the hard thing kindly, and hold the line on quality on launch day.

  • Comfort with executives who hold a strong vision. You can advise, challenge, and make recommendations to senior leaders without flinching.

  • Deep familiarity with the rules of corporate comms, and a clear point of view on which ones to break and when.

  • Comfort using AI tools in your workflow, and the ability to say exactly where and how you use them.

  • A passion for the truth well-told

Perplexity

About the company

Perplexity

Startup

Perplexity is an innovative technology company that specializes in developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions aimed at enhancing human-computer interaction. With a focus on natural language processing and machine learning, Perplexity empowers users to access information and insights more intuitively and efficiently. The company is dedicated to creating tools that simplify complex data and foster informed decision-making, thereby transforming the way individuals and organizations engage with knowledge. Through its commitment to excellence and user-centric design, Perplexity is shaping the future of information retrieval and analysis.

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