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# Forward Deployed Marketing Engineer at Profound

- **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/0621c0d3-d4b2-41dd-8eaa-eeb5197d7ec8

## 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. We named this role. In April 2026, at Zero Click San Francisco, Profound introduced a new role to the marketing org:[the Marketing Engineer](https://www.tryprofound.com/marketing-engineer). A marketer who went deep on building, who looks at a manual process and sees a system. Since then, marketers everywhere have told us they finally have a name for what they do, companies like Google and Figma have started hiring for it, and hundreds have been certified through[Profound University](https://university.tryprofound.com/courses/marketing-engineering-concepts). Read the[Marketing Engineer manifesto](https://www.tryprofound.com/marketing-engineer), hear from practitioners on the[Marketing Engineer podcast](https://www.tryprofound.com/podcasts), or read our[Founding Marketing Engineer's first-hand take on the role](https://nicklafferty.com/blog/marketing-engineer/). Now we’re building the team that brings Marketing Engineering to the world’s biggest brands and our agency and consulting partners. As a Forward Deployed Marketing Engineer, you’ll embed with customer teams, often onsite, to understand their marketing work, identify where Profound can help, and build workflows that become part of everyday delivery. You’ll combine marketing judgment with deep product knowledge to help teams produce better work and use Profound confidently. Here's what makes this role different: shipping the build doesn't finish the job. You’ll work alongside customers on real marketing tasks - researching competitors, developing briefs, creating content and reporting on performance. You’ll help teams get useful results from Profound, improve the quality of their work and build the skills to use it independently.

## What you'll do

- Be forward deployed. Work alongside customer marketing teams, onsite regularly. Join planning meetings, review briefs and campaigns, and use Profound with the people doing the work.
- Recommend where Profound can help. Understand the team’s priorities, how they work and what slows them down. Bring proven applications suited to their business, and identify opportunities they may not have considered.
- Apply marketing judgment. Review outputs with customers for accuracy, brand voice, audience fit and usefulness. Refine the inputs and instructions until the results meet the team’s standards.
- Build and refine. Design, build, and troubleshoot agents and workflows in Profound that run real marketing work, from reporting and competitive research to content drafting and page audits.
- Drive adoption. Help practitioners use Profound on live projects, resolve barriers and build their confidence to use it independently. Track usage and extend successful applications to more teams.
- Work with the account team. Partner with Engagement Managers on priorities, stakeholder access and delivery; Account Managers on expansion opportunities; and Agent Engineers on complex builds, integrations and reliability.
- Build partner capability. Work directly with our agency and consulting partners to identify how Profound can support their teams and client services. Help them put it into practice, train their practitioners, and collaborate on shared customer engagements.
- Share what works. Turn successful applications into templates, training and playbooks that customers, partners and colleagues can reuse. Bring specific customer needs and recurring product gaps back to Product.
- What you're accountable for: adoption driven through use cases your customers find useful.

## Who you are

We look for six things: marketing experience, builder aptitude, product depth, initiative and ownership, customer credibility, and fluency with the modern marketing stack. This role is for marketers who build, not engineers who want to learn marketing.

- Marketing experience. 2 to 6 years in marketing or working closely with marketing teams, whether in-house, at an agency or consultancy, or in a martech role. You understand marketers’ priorities, recognize strong work, and have helped teams improve how they work through technology.
- Builder aptitude. You’re curious about how technology can improve marketing and willing to experiment. Technical experience isn’t required; automating a process, configuring marketing tools, building with LLMs or connecting systems is a strong plus.
- Product depth. You learn new tools quickly, explore what they can do and apply them to real work. We’ll train you to become an expert in Profound.[Profound University certification](https://university.tryprofound.com/courses/marketing-engineering-concepts) is a plus.
- Initiative and ownership. You identify opportunities, make recommendations and follow through. You can manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, and keep work moving without waiting for detailed instructions.
- Customer credibility. You communicate clearly, lead conversations with confidence and earn trust with practitioners and senior marketing leaders. You’re comfortable working regularly on site and collaborating with customers’ internal teams, agencies and consultants.
- Tools and technology. Experience with platforms such as HubSpot, Marketo, Braze, Segment or Clay is helpful. Coding skills are welcome, but neither coding nor a computer science degree is required.
- Specialized expertise (plus). Experience applying AI or marketing automation, or depth in a discipline or industry such as content, lifecycle, pharma, CPG or banking.

## How we hire

Our process is designed to show us how you think as a practitioner: whether you can understand a real marketing problem, build a credible solution, evaluate what it produces, and explain it to a customer. Location This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, with regular travel to customer sites. For this role, the expected base salary range is $100,000 to $200,000 (NYC and SF) and £63,000 to £135,000 (London). 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 your experience and fit and will be determined during the interview process. 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.

## About Profound

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Profound is the full-stack marketing platform that helps brands understand, analyze, and optimize their visibility across AI-driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, Unicorn)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (also offices in San Francisco, London, and Buenos Aires)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: James Cadwallader (CEO) and Dylan Babbs (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI marketing intelligence, Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), brand visibility analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise marketing teams (e.g., Target, Walmart, Figma, MongoDB, Charlotte Tilbury, US Bank)
- **Mission**: “To build the best technology so businesses can understand and control how they appear in AI answers.”

## Products & Services
- **Answer Engine Insights**: Dashboard providing real-time visibility into how brands are mentioned and rated across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI platforms.
- **Agent Analytics**: Tracks how a brand’s website is crawled and interpreted by major AI models.
- **Prompt Volumes**: Shows what millions of people are asking AI, enabling demand alignment.
- **Profound Agents**: Autonomous AI workers that execute marketing functions (content creation, PR, brand sentiment, SEO/AEO) directly within the platform.
- **Profound Ecosystem**: Includes training, certification, an agency marketplace, and Profound University for marketers.
- **Integrations**: HubSpot, Google Workspace, Gamma, Parallel AI, Vercel (with more being added continuously).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $1 billion (unicorn as of Series C, February 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised $154.5 million across four rounds; $96M Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (Feb 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Evantic, Saga Ventures, South Park Commons
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 1B+ prompts analyzed daily, 30B+ citations analyzed daily
  - 1800+ customers worldwide
  - 169 employees (monthly headcount growth of +15.1%)
  - 88 open positions
  - Global footprint in 6 countries (US, UK, Argentina, India, Canada, Brazil)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover advantage** in the AI visibility / AEO category, with proprietary data on how AI models crawl and represent brands.
- **Integrated platform** that moves from insight (analytics) to execution (Agents) in one system, replacing fragmented toolchains.
- **Strong talent pool**: early hires from Yext, 6sense, Amazon, Attentive, and consulting firms.
- **Rapid scaling**: raised from Seed to Series C and reached unicorn status in 18 months.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform expansion**: Building out the Profound Ecosystem (training, certification, agency marketplace) to create a new category of “Marketing Engineer.”
- **Global reach**: Growing engineering and go-to-market teams across NYC, SF, London, and Buenos Aires.
- **Product depth**: Enhancing Agents with deeper automation while keeping humans in control of strategy.
- **Partnerships & integrations**: Deepening ties with major marketing and productivity tools.

## Why Work Here
- **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.

## Sources
1. [tryprofound.com](https://www.tryprofound.com/)
2. [tryprofound.com/careers](https://www.tryprofound.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn / Profound](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryprofound)
4. [Fortune – Exclusive: Profound raises $96M](https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusive-as-ai-threatens-search-profound-raises-96-million-to-help-brands-stay-visible/)
5. [tryprofound.com/blog – Series C announcement](https://www.tryprofound.com/blog/profound-raises-96m-series-c)

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