Localization Program Manager

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine founded in December 2022 and growing rapidly as one of the world’s leading AI platforms. Perplexity has raised over $1B in venture investment from some of the world’s most visionary and successful leaders, including Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Jeff Bezos, Accel, IVP, NEA, NVIDIA, Samsung, and many more. Our objective is to build accurate, trustworthy AI that powers decision-making for people and assistive AI wherever decisions are being made. Throughout human history, change and innovation have always been driven by curious people. Today, curious people use Perplexity to answer more than 780 million queries every month–a number that’s growing rapidly for one simple reason: everyone can be curious. 

Perplexity is looking for a Localization Manager to lead and scale localization efforts across the company, ensuring our products and content resonate with users globally. Reporting into the Product org, this role will manage translations for a diverse range of platforms ranging from mobile to desktop, as well as public facing communications.

• Shape and drive Perplexity’s localization strategy.
• Experiment with and scale up AI-powered translation, mixing smart tech with expert human reviewers to balance speed, quality, and cost.
• Build strong relationships with vendors and linguists, and bring on talented partners in key markets where we’re growing.
• Oversee linguistic quality checks to make sure our translations hit a high bar.
• Troubleshoot and streamline processes—find and fix technical or workflow roadblocks so our localized features work everywhere.
• Collaborate with GTM, Product Ops, Partnerships, Legal, and local teams to prioritize languages, align on launch timing, and ensure the right surfaces are localized for the right audiences.
• Keep our glossary and style guides organized and consistent, supporting product and marketing teams as we expand globally.

• 3+ years managing localization for marketing, product, and cross-team projects—ideally at a tech company with global reach.
• Hands-on experience with localization tools and systems (TMS, CMS, connectors, APIs).
• Experience testing or rolling out AI/ML translation workflows, with humans involved for quality checks.
• Comfortable collaborating with lots of different teams (marketing, product, engineering, legal, customer success) to launch globally.
• Great at working with vendors and linguists, especially when sourcing talent for priority markets.
• Solid communication and project management skills—you can keep a lot of balls in the air and know how to prioritize.
• Confident digging into data and using insights to make smart decisions.

• Familiarity with internationalization standards such as Unicode and CLDR
• Exposure to SQL or analytics tools
• Familiarity with low-code tools 

The cash compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $250,000.