Perplexity
Sr. Business Recruiter, Communications & Marketing
$165K–$200K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
About the job
Leads full-cycle recruiting for Perplexity’s Communications and Marketing teams, from defining searches and sourcing candidates through evaluation and close, while using AI to improve recruiting workflows.
What you'll do
- Own full-cycle recruiting across Communications and Marketing, partnering with leaders from intake through close.
- Build talent maps and discipline-specific sourcing strategies; assess candidates using portfolios, writing samples, campaign context, and results.
- Use AI tools for recruiting research, sourcing, outreach, and operations, while tracking search performance and maintaining candidate experience.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with meaningful depth across Communications and Marketing.
- Experience hiring across several listed functions, such as Product Marketing, Communications, Editorial, Content, Social Media, Brand, Growth, Demand Generation, Field Marketing, or Events.
- Track record partnering with senior Communications or Marketing leaders on important and difficult searches.
- Experience recruiting in a high-growth startup or similarly fast-moving environment; hands-on use of AI tools to improve recruiting workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience with Ashby.
Pay
$165K – $200K USD base salary
Tools
Ashby
AI focus
Apply AI to recruiting research, talent mapping, sourcing, outreach, and workflow automation; identify where automation helps and where recruiter judgment should remain central.
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