--- title: 'Head of Design at Profound' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-design-profound-new-york-st0vbetehe8w' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-13' --- # Head of Design at Profound - **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound) - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/3f8fe7df-03cb-44ae-8ca2-ba5b8e81c175 ## 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’re building a new category of software, and design will define what that experience becomes. We’re hiring a Head of Design to lead and grow our design team, set the vision for an AI-native product, and make sure everything we ship meets our exceptionally high bar. You’ll report directly to our CTO and work closely with the founders and leadership team, with real ownership over what we build, not just how it looks. ## What you’ll do - Set the design vision: define the long-term direction for Profound’s product experience and a cohesive design language across the platform, and bring clarity to complex workflows - Shape product strategy: partner with the founders and product and engineering leadership on what we build, why, and how. Design is a central voice in product decisions, not a function that executes against them - Lead and grow the team: level up our existing designers, hire the ones who come next, and build a culture of high standards, strong ownership, and honest critique as we scale - Lead through craft: stay close to the work through product judgment, visual and interaction design, and hands-on exploration. Challenge assumptions and push the team toward experiences that are both beautiful and deeply functional - Define AI-native experiences: create new interaction patterns for software that doesn’t just respond to users but works on their behalf, bringing agents, complex data, and human judgment together in ways that feel intuitive - Move fast without losing quality: build the principles, systems, and rituals that let the team prototype, learn from customers, and ship quickly - Stay close to customers: use research, product intuition, and data to make sure what we build solves real problems and makes marketers better at their jobs ## Who you are - You’ve led product design at an ambitious, high-growth technology company, setting vision, building teams, and influencing company-level product direction - You have exceptional taste and a portfolio of shipped, beautifully executed products, and you know how to bring others up to your bar - You’ve hired and developed great designers, and you’ve raised the quality of a team you inherited, not just one you built from scratch - You see design and product strategy as inseparable; you navigate ambiguity, find the right problems to solve, and influence founders, executives, and engineers - You’ve designed sophisticated software, ideally B2B platforms, analytics, data visualization, or complex workflows, and know how to make powerful products feel simple - You’re hands-on: equally comfortable presenting a long-term vision, coaching a designer through a hard problem, or jumping into Figma or code to prototype an idea yourself - You’re energized by AI, actively experiment with new tools, and have strong opinions about how AI will change both products and the practice of design 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. We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates. For this role, the expected base salary range is $265,000 to $365,000. 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-PRO 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. 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