What are the responsibilities and job description for the Developer Relations Manager - Perplexity API Platform position at Perplexity AI?
Perplexity's APIs power the AI behind every Samsung on-device experience - across one billion devices - and are trusted by a growing roster of Fortune 500s. We went from a single Sonar API to a full platform: Search API, Agent API, Embeddings, and more. That growth didn't happen by accident, and it isn't slowing down.
We're looking for the person who will own the next chapter: making Perplexity's API platform the default choice for developers building the next generation of AI-native products.
What You'll Own
Be the face of Perplexity's API platform
About You
We're looking for the person who will own the next chapter: making Perplexity's API platform the default choice for developers building the next generation of AI-native products.
What You'll Own
Be the face of Perplexity's API platform
- Represent our APIs at conferences, hackathons, and developer meetups - not as a booth rep, but as a credible builder who has shipped with our stack.
- Run workshops, AMAs, and webinars that go deep on the Search API, Agent API, Embeddings, and MCP server.
- Amplify developer projects publicly - on X, Discord, Reddit, and wherever the best builders congregate.
- Own our developer forum, Discord, and Reddit presence - triage, moderate, and make sure no high-signal question goes unanswered.
- Organize hackathons and build nights. Handle everything from prize scoping and API credit grants to live event support and post-event ROI writeups.
- Convert repeated questions and friction points into docs updates, Cookbook examples, and better onboarding - close the loop between community and product.
- Write tutorials, changelogs, and technical blog posts that developers forward to each other - not marketing copy dressed up as docs.
- Build and maintain Cookbook examples: RAG pipelines, agent workflows, multi-provider SDK demos, n8n integrations, MCP starters - things developers can run on day one.
- Coordinate launch content across docs, social, Discord, and forum so every API release lands consistently and builds momentum.
- Sit with developers to troubleshoot integrations - and synthesize those conversations into structured feedback for product and engineering.
- Monitor the competitive landscape and surface differentiation opportunities for GTM and product teams.
- Maintain the partner integration pipeline and help scale the Startups credits program beyond its current manual state.
About You
- 4 years in DevRel or Developer Advocacy with measurable results - you can name the campaigns and quote the outcomes.
- You've shipped code. Comfortable with API integrations, SDKs, and modern web tooling. You can read a diff, write a working example, and spot when docs are wrong.
- Exceptional communicator across formats - conference talk, changelog entry, Reddit reply - all in the same day.
- Operationally sharp. You've managed community platforms, run event logistics, and kept multiple workstreams moving without things falling through the cracks.
- Growth-minded. You connect every initiative to business impact and you've built or meaningfully improved a developer activation funnel.
- Collaborative by default. You thrive at the intersection of product, engineering, and marketing - and you're comfortable pushing back when developer needs aren't being met.
Salary : $170,000 - $220,000