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# Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers at Profound

- **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/5c36e7d7-9cc7-4977-b5b5-48af04000a55

## 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 the Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers, you'll lead and develop the team that brings Marketing Engineering to the world's biggest brands. You'll set the standard for how Profound deploys inside customer marketing teams, and you'll be accountable for whether the workflows your team ships become part of how those customers work every week.

## What you'll do

- Hire and develop the team. Recruit strong marketing practitioners, lead onboarding and coach them to become effective customer-facing builders in Profound.
- Stay hands-on with customers. Lead selected engagements alongside your team, working onsite with practitioners and building relationships with senior marketing leaders.
- Manage performance. Set account-specific goals, review usage, and coach your team on the actions needed to improve results. Distinguish delivery gaps from customer or product constraints and help resolve them.
- Set delivery standards. Establish how the team understands customer needs, recommends applications, builds in Profound, evaluates outputs and trains users. Refine the approach as you learn what works.
- Coach marketing judgment and customer leadership. Help your team assess the quality of marketing outputs, develop clear recommendations and earn trust with practitioners and executives.
- Build partner capability. Work with our partnerships team to help agencies and consultancies adopt Profound within their own teams and client services. Establish clear responsibilities on shared customer engagements.
- Coordinate account delivery. Work with Engagement Managers on account priorities and delivery, and Account Managers on commercial opportunities. Allocate your team’s time where it can have the greatest impact.
- Partner with technical teams and Product. Bring in Agent Engineering for complex builds and reliability issues. Help your team document product barriers and work with Product and Engineering to address them.
- Make successful approaches repeatable. Turn proven applications into templates, training and playbooks that customers, partners and Profound teams can use independently.

## Who you are

As the Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers, you’ll hire, lead and develop a team of marketers who help customers and partners put Profound to work. You’ll stay hands-on with key accounts, coach your team on marketing and customer delivery, and be accountable for activation and sustained usage across the accounts.

- Marketing experience. 6+ years working in marketing or closely with marketing teams—in-house, at an agency or consultancy, or in a martech solutions or consulting role. You understand marketing priorities and can judge the quality and business value of the work. Expertise in a particular industry or marketing discipline is a plus.
- Leadership. Experience managing or formally leading practitioners, ideally in a customer-facing or consulting team. You can hire and develop strong people, set clear priorities and coach others to lead customer conversations and deliver results. You’re comfortable establishing how a new team operates while staying hands-on.
- Builder aptitude. You’re comfortable learning and applying technology to marketing problems, and helping others do the same. Experience with AI, automation or marketing platforms is a strong plus; coding isn’t required. You can assess whether your team’s work solves the customer’s problem and recognize when to bring in technical expertise.
- Product depth. You learn tools quickly and deeply, and are excited to become an expert in Profound. You’ll use that knowledge to coach your team and maintain a high standard of delivery. Profound University certification is a plus.
- Customer credibility. You earn trust with practitioners and senior marketing leaders, lead executive conversations and help your team navigate complex customer relationships. You’re comfortable working regularly on site and collaborating directly with agency and consulting partners.

Experience as a Marketing Engineer, experience working alongside agencies or consultancies, or hands-on experience with tools like HubSpot, Marketo, Braze, Segment, or Clay is a plus. Python, SQL, or JavaScript is a plus, but a track record of building matters more than a CS degree.

## How we hire

Our process is designed to show us how you think as a leader and practitioner: whether you can understand a real marketing problem, evaluate a credible solution, coach a builder to improve it, and explain it to a customer. Location This is an on-site role based in our NYC, SF, or London office with regular travel to customer sites. For this role, the expected base salary range is $207,000 to $250,000 (NYC and SF) and £131,000 to £166,000 (London). 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. 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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