Perplexity

Customer Success & Support

HeadofSupport

$200–275k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Head of Support at Perplexity. Skills: Support operations, AI tooling, Team leadership. Lead support function. Build operating model”

What You'll Achieve.

Help customers succeed; Improve the product; Unlock growth; Deliver great support

Industry & Context.

Customer Success & Support

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

8+ years customer support experience, 4+ years managing support teams, Experience building support processes, Technical fluency, Experience using AI/automation

Nice to Have

Experience across multiple support motions, Experience with distributed teammates, Experience with contractors, Experience with technical specialists

What You'll Do.

Lead support function

Build operating model

Coach and develop team

Own support AI tooling

Partner with Customer Success

Partner with Engineering

Improve Enterprise support

Scale consumer support

Serve as escalation leader

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Written communication

Full Job Description

Perplexity is looking for a Head of Support to build one high-quality, scalable support experience across Enterprise and consumer customers. This person will bring together support teams, workflows, and tooling into a focused operating model that helps customers succeed, improves the product, and unlocks growth. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build the support machine, not just run the queue. You will own the team, the systems, the feedback loops, and the AI tools that help Perplexity deliver great support without scaling headcount linearly. RESPONSIBILITIES - Lead Perplexity’s support function across Enterprise and consumer customers. - Build one operating model for queues, coverage, escalations, SLAs, QA, reporting, and team performance. - Coach and develop a distributed team with a high bar for customer empathy, technical judgment, speed, and written communication. - Own support AI tooling, including support bot agents, AI-assisted triage, routing, knowledge retrieval, and agent workflows. - Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, and RevOps to turn customer pain and ticket trends into better product and customer experiences. - Improve high-touch Enterprise support while scaling high-volume consumer support through better tooling, documentation, and automation. - Hire thoughtfully as the business grows, balancing team growth with process, product, and AI leverage. - Serve as an escalation leader for complex, high-priority, or ambiguous customer issues. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 8+ years in customer support, technical support, customer experience, or support operations at a fast-growing technology company. - 4+ years managing support teams, ideally across multiple support motions, distributed teammates, contractors, or technical specialists. - Experience building support processes, escalation paths, knowledge systems, QA routines, reporting, and team operating rhythms from an early or scaling stage. - Strong technical flu

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