--- title: 'Implementation Manager at Profound' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/implementation-manager-profound-new-york-nk7gdgbebzws' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Implementation Manager at Profound - **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound) - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-10 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/7394c1b2-c62a-4fce-babc-6e85110370c0 ## Job description Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage. We went from 0 to a $1B valuation in 18 months. Revenue grew 100x last year. Our customers include 15% of the Fortune 500 like Walmart, Wayfair and U.S. Bank, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. We are backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, LSVP, and Khosla Ventures — and we are moving fast enough that the people joining now are building the playbook everyone who comes after them will run. As an Implementation Manager, you'll own onboarding and enablement execution for our Scaled and Mid-Market customers, ensuring stakeholders are set up for success from day one. You'll run onboarding at scale through recurring sessions, strengthen the systems and curriculum that make the motion repeatable, and ensure customers realize value quickly — independently managing a high volume of implementations and adapting the playbook when customer circumstances require a different approach. Partnering closely with Customer Success, Sales, Product, Engineering, and Data, you'll create a best-in-class onboarding experience. This is a build role. You are not stepping into a finished system — you are helping define how onboarding works at scale. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own the implementation journey for a high-volume portfolio of Scaled and Mid-Market customers, from platform configuration and setup through early value realization - Run weekly onboarding sessions covering platform setup, prompt creation, report interpretation, and Q&A - Design and continuously improve the scaled onboarding curriculum that serves as the primary implementation motion for Scaled and Mid-Market customers - Build the enablement infrastructure including session templates, help content, and follow-up sequences to make onboarding scalable without sacrificing quality - Independently handle escalations and implementation blockers, adapting established playbooks when customer circumstances require a different approach - Define and track implementation performance metrics, like time to value, configuration completion rate, and operational efficiency, recognizing patterns to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of the implementation motion - Evolve the implementation motion as our customer base grows, building a process that scales without proportional headcount - Surface product gaps, onboarding friction, and recurring issues to Customer Success and Product teams, and create or improve playbooks based on repeated experience - Serve as the internal expert on how customers actually use Profound — a dependable subject-matter resource for teammates — and translate that insight into stronger programs, content, and strategy ## WHO YOU ARE - 4 or more years of experience in customer success, onboarding, implementation, or customer education - You understand the gap between “sold” and “successful,” and have owned the motion that closes it — consistently producing strong outcomes across demanding, high-volume engagements - You know how to tie implementation to the product value and communicate that to keep customers motivated through the process - Strong facilitator, comfortable leading group sessions, webinars, and office hours with stakeholders at varying levels of sophistication - Organized program owner who can build a repeatable system from scratch, keep it running, and demonstrate reliable performance across a broad portfolio - Skilled at handling difficult conversations, balancing short-term customer needs against longer-term program objectives, and maintaining customer trust in moments of ambiguity or change - Process-oriented and data-aware, tracking what works and improving what does not - Comfortable operating independently in ambiguity and building systems rather than inheriting them - Power user of AI tools who uses them to transform workflows, increase leverage, and drive meaningful efficiency gains - AI search experience is a plus ## 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 $115,000 to $140,000 before variable compensation. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, variable compensation, 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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