
Chief of Staff at Profound (New York, NY)
Profound· New York, NY· $150k–$200k·
Role details
Equity · Competitive Base Salary · Full Range Of Benefits And Perks
Profound at a glance
Full-stack marketing platform for the AI era that measures and improves how brands appear across AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Profound tracks how AI answer engines mention, rank, cite, and describe a brand, capturing responses directly from the consumer browser rather than model APIs. It then gives marketers demand data (Prompt Volumes), crawler and AI-referral analytics (Agent Analytics), and autonomous agents to create and optimize content, so teams can diagnose and fix an AI visibility gap in one platform.
$155M+ raised · latest: Series C · $96M · February 2026 · $1B valuation · backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures
Summary
The Chief of Staff acts as a force multiplier for the leadership team, driving alignment, ensuring execution, and creating leverage across the business. This role requires high agency, the ability to thrive in ambiguity, and ownership of outcomes end-to-end.
Job description
Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them. Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day. As our Chief of Staff, you will act as a force multiplier for the leadership team, driving alignment, ensuring execution, and creating leverage across the business. This role is for someone who is hungry and has exceptionally high agency. You should thrive on ambiguity, take ownership, and know how to create value without waiting for direction. No task is too big or too small.
What you’ll do
- Partner with the CEO and leadership team to prioritize, execute, and track progress on the highest-impact strategic initiatives across the company
- Streamline decision-making, manage leadership cadences, and ensure follow-through on commitments to create leverage for leadership
- Work cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Growth, and Customer Success to close gaps, accelerate progress, and unlock new opportunities
- Build trust and alignment across teams to enable collaboration without relying on formal reporting lines
- Step into ambiguous, high-priority efforts such as launching new processes, tackling operational bottlenecks, or testing new growth levers
- Provide strategic input, surface insights, and help shape the future direction of Profound
Who you are
- Hungry and high-agency operator, ambitious, driven, and proactive, seeing gaps and filling them without waiting for permission
- Experienced owner with a background as a product manager, founder, or early operator, owning outcomes end to end
- Collaborative leader skilled at influencing and driving alignment across teams without formal authority
- Strategic and tactical, equally comfortable thinking big picture and diving into execution details, with no task too big or too small
- Resilient and resourceful, thriving in ambiguity, adapting quickly, and biasing toward action
Location This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. For this role, the expected base salary range is $150,000 to $200,000. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.
#LI-DNI
Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.
Why work at Profound
- Compensation: Strong base salary plus significant equity in a well-funded unicorn.
- Culture: High-context, direct communication with a bias for action; “merit-driven, not tenure-driven” career acceleration.
- Work model: In-office presence required in NYC, SF, London, or Buenos Aires; daily catered meals, late-night Uber reimbursement, fitness stipend, and flexible time off.
- Engineering focus: Key roles include Agent Engineer, AI/ML Engineer, Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer – competing for AI talent against companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Growth: Rapid scaling environment with visible impact; opportunity to define a new category.