Social Media Manager
Role Overview
This mid-level Social Media Manager role involves hands-on daily management of Perplexity's social channels, primarily Instagram, with additional community engagement on Reddit and developer platforms. You'll set growth strategy, write copy, scale team accounts, and collaborate closely with Comms, marketing, product, and engineering teams in a fast-paced AI startup environment. The role has high ownership and impact on brand presence and audience growth.
Perks & Benefits
Fully remote role with flexible schedule typical of tech startups. Opportunity to shape social strategy for a fast-growing AI company and work directly with leadership and cross-functional teams. Career growth potential in a high-visibility role with significant ownership. Standard remote benefits likely include home office stipend, health insurance, and equity.
Full Job Description
Perplexity is looking for a Social Media Manager to expand how Perplexity shows up online. You'll run the channels day to day, writing posts, setting strategy, scaling our accounts, and writing for leadership and the team, working closely with our Communications and marketing team, product managers, and engineers.
This is a hands-on role. You'll write most of what goes out yourself. Excellent judgement and high taste are required. The role is mostly Instagram with some community initiatives like Reddit, and interacting with our developer audiences.
Responsibilities
Run social channels day to day. Maintain our brand and product accounts across all channels. This includes writing social copy, planning content, and managing engagement.
Set the social strategy. Decide and execute how we grow each account, what we post where, and how we measure it.
Scale our team accounts. Help employees post in our voice and grow our presence across platforms.
Build and moderate community. Engage on Reddit and in developer communities, and represent Perplexity where our users already are.
Adapt and ship fast. Partner with Comms and marketing, PM’s, founders, and engineers in a fast-paced launch environment.
Qualifications
3+ years running social for a brand, ideally tech and AI.
You can write. Send us posts you wrote that performed and tell us why they worked.
Native fluency on Instagram and LinkedIn, with a track record of growing an account.
Demonstrated experience being entrusted with a brand voice
You know how to write for different audiences and platforms, and adjust the voice for each.
Comfortable in a fast launch cycle where the plan changes often
Nice to have
You've run or moderated a developer or technical community.
You've written on behalf of leadership or other voices.
You follow AI closely and have opinions on how the best companies show up online.
Similar jobs
Found 6 similar jobs