Content Curator, Discover (India Focus)

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.

About Discover

Discover reimagines information consumption with an AI-native experience that is faster, more personalized, and more transparent than traditional feeds. Our mission is to organize and present the most important news and stories of the day to engaged, intelligent audiences worldwide. We serve business leaders, knowledge workers, and curious minds who expect premium content.

Role Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Content Curator, based in India, to join our content operations team, with a focus on curating and editing Indian content for our news and personalized feeds. This role maintains rigorous standards of accuracy, relevance, and quality for all published content.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and curate content pipeline across Discover India’s feeds to maintain continuous freshness and relevance

• Ensure content on Discover is always substantive, verified, and valuable to readers​ and Perplexity users

• Own fact-checking, editorial review, headline/image generation, and overall quality assurance checks on both mobile and web; leverage AI tools to scale up and systemize these processes

• Proactively identify gaps in Discover India’s coverage and create timely content that addresses important, underrepresented, or emerging topics

• Communicate proactively with Discover leadership to improve and expand content pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, English, or related field

• 3-5 years of experience in content editing, news editing, or digital journalism

• Strong knowledge of Indian news market, major and niche publications, and regional context

• Excellent editorial judgment with ability to distinguish between breaking, trending, and general news

• Command of English language with strong grammar, spelling, and syntax skills

• Proven ability to work efficiently in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to editorial excellence

• Proficiency with content management systems (CMS)

• Ability to work independently while also collaborating with distributed team