Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
About the role
Design and write in-product language across web, mobile, desktop, and voice, including UI copy, flows, onboarding, notifications, empty states, errors, and in-product education Partner with product designers from the start of a project, shaping flows, structure, and information architecture as well as the words in them Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in content design, UX writing, or product design, shipping software at scale
- An excellent portfolio that shows how your language shaped product decisions, with clear before and after examples and your role in each
- Strong UX fundamentals, including interaction design, information architecture, usability, and accessibility
- Good product sensibility and judgment about what to build, what to cut, and what matters most to people
- Exceptional writing and editing skills, with range from precise interface copy to clear explanations and confident naming
- Strong AI fluency, including hands-on experience writing prompts, working with LLMs, and judging the quality of AI-generated content
More about this role
Perplexity is looking for a Content Designer to shape the words across our products. You'll design the language people see and hear across our family of Perplexity apps, from the first screen of onboarding to the way an agent explains what it's doing. Fundamentally, we are all writers. Our product is primarily spoken language and written product; but as we scale, we want someone who will continue to work on clarity, usefulness, and keep it unmistakably Perplexity.
You're a designer first? You're an engineer first? You're a writer first? Your shape is not conventional, and you wear many hats. You are fluent in AI tooling. You have strong UX fundamentals and good product instincts. You use language to solve product problems: flows, naming, information architecture, error states, permissions, and moments where people need to trust what the product is telling them. You command words. You command agents, and make decisions about words. You can write one perfect line, and you can build the system that keeps thousands of lines consistent.
You'll sit on the Design Systems team and work closely with product designers, engineers, PMs, research, brand, and marketing. (Again) You're fluent in...
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