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Technical Customer Success Manager, API

Perplexity · San Francisco · Remote

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About Perplexity

Backed by Accel, Bessemer and NEA.

About the role

We are looking for a technically fluent Customer Success Manager to help our API customers succeed and shape how we support them as the business grows. You will own a portfolio of customers, understand what they are building, and help them move from evaluation to production and broader adoption.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in customer success, technical account management, solutions engineering, or a related customer-facing role at a technology company
  • Technical fluency: comfortable reading API documentation, making API requests, interpreting responses and errors, and discussing integration questions with developers
  • A track record of driving adoption, retention, or growth across a portfolio of customers, with clear ownership of follow-through
  • Experience creating or improving a customer program, playbook, or cross-functional process, not only operating an established one
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly and communicate carefully when facts are still developing
  • Sound judgment in balancing account needs with strategic projects, setting priorities, and moving work forward without a detailed brief
More about this role

Perplexity's API Platform brings our work in AI, search, and agent orchestration to developers. Our customers range from AI-native startups to some of the world's largest technology companies. Working with them, alongside our own developments in building Perplexity’s core application gives our team direct exposure to how search, models, and tools are used to build and scale AI-native products and applications.

We are looking for a technically fluent Customer Success Manager to help our API customers succeed and shape how we support them as the business grows. You will own a portfolio of customers, understand what they are building, and help them move from evaluation to production and broader adoption.

Alongside your accounts, you will lead projects such as product and endpoint migrations, customer enablement, and communications for product updates and incidents. You will work directly with customers developing AI products and with the engineers building the APIs they depend on. As an early member of the team, you will help shape our customer success programs and bring what you learn from customers into product decisions.

Own customer relationships across onboarding, adoption,...

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