Consumer Support Specialist

About the Team
The User Operations team at Perplexity AI is the frontline of our user experience. We ensure that our AI-powered search and answer engine delivers real value to every user—from individual consumers to teams and organizations. Our team operates across 3-4 active support channels—email, in-app messaging, Slack, and community—and collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, Billing, and Growth to turn user feedback into product improvements. We’re a lean, fast-moving group at a startup that ships constantly, so everyone on the team wears multiple hats and contributes well beyond just resolving tickets.

About the Role
Perplexity launches new features and products at a rapid pace—and this role sits at the center of that. We need a User Operations Generalist who combines excellent customer support instincts with real technical depth. You’ll handle high volumes of user inquiries across channels while also digging into product issues, using customer feedback to uncover problems, and providing solutions that improve the experience for everyone.

This isn’t just ticket work. As new features and products ship, you’re the person who hears about it first from users—what’s working, what’s confusing, and what’s broken. You’ll use those interactions to surface insights that shape how launches land, identify issues before they scale, and provide clear solutions back to users. You’ll also build automations and improve workflows that make the team faster and smarter, so we can keep up with the pace of the product without sacrificing quality.

You should be comfortable operating across multiple support channels and have experience standing up or optimizing multi-channel support operations—not just working in them, but thinking critically about how they’re structured, routed, and scaled.

This role requires someone who can navigate ambiguity and fill in the gaps where processes don’t yet exist. You won’t always have a playbook—and that’s the point. We need someone who can define the path forward, not just follow one.

You’re a strong, independent operator who doesn’t need to be told what to do next:
You see the gap—whether it’s a missing Help Center article, a broken workflow, or a pattern in user tickets—and you move to fix it

You’re self-motivated and take initiative, but you also know when to ask questions

You communicate effectively with the team—keeping people informed, surfacing blockers early, and making sure nothing falls through the cracks

We won’t hold your hand through this role, and we wouldn’t want to—because you’re the kind of person who thrives when given ownership and trust

Responsibilities
Handle a high volume of user inquiries across channels (email, chat, Slack, community) with speed, accuracy, and empathy for both consumer and business users.

Deliver excellent customer support—clear, thoughtful, and human—even under pressure and at scale

Triage and prioritize effectively to keep response and resolution times on target

Use customer feedback and support interactions as a primary source for uncovering product issues, UX confusion, and feature gaps—especially as new products and features launch

Investigate and troubleshoot product issues: reproduce problems, isolate root causes, provide users with solutions or workarounds, and document findings for Engineering

Guide users through technical troubleshooting: AI search, LLM behavior, account configuration

File well-documented bugs in Linear with enough context for Engineering to act immediately

Leverage AI tooling and automation (Intercom, scripts) to streamline operations, reduce repetitive work, and scale support quality

Write and maintain Help Center articles, internal SOPs, escalation playbooks, and troubleshooting guides

Communicate cross-functionally—surface user insights to Product and Engineering, escalate issues, close the loop, and keep teammates informed

Track support KPIs and propose data-driven process improvements