We are hiring for a data scientist to work on our business products (Perplexity Enterprise Pro, Sonar API, Ads). As an early member of the Data Science team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our product and company. This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help define the data science function. You will have the chance to contribute to our mission to be the world's most knowledge-centric company by reshaping the future of search and technology.
Perplexity is building the next-generation answer engine, empowering our users to find information in new and more effective ways. We are headquartered in San Francisco.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering, product, sales and business development teams to drive data-drive decision making
- Analyze user behavior to uncover insights that shape product roadmap
- Support Enterprise Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies with data-driven insights
- Design, execute and analyze A/B tests to validate hypotheses and improve our product
- Define, implement and visualize key business metrics from feature-level KPIs to company-wide dashboards
- Build data models and tables to improve analytics efficiency and data accessibility
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience working as a data scientist or related role
- Experience working on a B2B product
- SQL expert
- Extensive experience building dashboards with BI tools (e.g., Omni, Mode, Hex, Looker)
- Take ownership and are a self-started who thrives with open-ended problems
- Some experience with data modeling (e.g., dbt, airflow)
Bonus
- Experience with B2B Go-to-Market (GTM) analytics
- Experience with advertising data and metrics
- Worked at a high-growth startup in an early stage data science role
- Hands on-experience with dbt and data engineering/analytics engineering
- Experience with Snowflake
- Are comfortable with Python for data analysis
- Machine learning experience
The cash compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000
At Perplexity, we've experienced tremendous growth and adoption since publicly launching the world's first fully functional conversational answer engine in 2022. We've grown from answering 2.5 million questions per day at the start of 2024 to around 20 million daily queries in December 2024. We also offer Perplexity Enterprise Pro, which counts leading companies like Nvidia, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Bridgewater, and Zoom as customers.
To support our rapid expansion, we've raised significant funding from some of the most respected technology investors. Our investor base includes IVP, NEA, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA, Databricks, Bessemer Venture Partners, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Naval Ravikant, Tobi Lutke, and many other visionary individuals. In 2024, our employee base grew nearly 300%, and we're just getting started.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity is part of the total compensation package.
Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.
Perplexity San Francisco, California, USA Office
575 Market St. SF 4th Floor, San Francisco, California, United States, 94105
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