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# Manager, Recruiting Operations & AI Automation at Profound

- **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $175k–$215k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Profound/3ff8744e-3435-4a8d-bd2a-b805c152ff56/application

**Skills:** ATS configuration and optimization, Data dashboarding, AI tool deployment, Recruiting automation, Scheduling tools, Sourcing platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter

> Lead the recruiting coordination team and architect the recruiting tech stack, including ATS configuration and AI automation. Build data dashboards for hiring metrics and enable hiring managers through structured processes and training to scale hiring operations efficiently.

## 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 Profound's first Recruiting Operations Manager hire, you'll own both the infrastructure and the team that powers how we hire at scale. You'll build and lead a team of Recruiting Coordinators, architect the systems and processes that let every recruiter move faster, and bring genuine AI and automation expertise to bear: not as a buzzword, but as a forcing function for doing more with less. This is a rare opportunity to define what modern recruiting operations looks like at a company building at the frontier of AI.

## What you'll do

Lead & develop the Recruiting Coordination team

- Hire, manage, and grow a team of Recruiting Coordinators as our hiring volume scales, owning their day-to-day priorities, development, and performance
- Build the team structure, capacity model, and operating rhythms that allow the function to keep pace with aggressive hiring targets
- Set clear expectations and accountability frameworks so the team executes consistently without bottlenecks

Own and evolve the recruiting tech stack

- Own Profound's ATS end to end: pipeline configuration, stage definitions, scorecards, automations, and integrations with scheduling and sourcing tools
- Manage the full recruiting technology ecosystem beyond the ATS, including scheduling tools, sourcing platforms, and LinkedIn Recruiter, ensuring we extract full value from each
- Identify, evaluate, and implement AI tools that meaningfully reduce manual work across the recruiting lifecycle, from sourcing and scheduling to candidate comms and debrief collection
- Build AI-enabled workflows and automations that increase coordinator throughput and recruiter efficiency without sacrificing candidate experience

Build the data foundation for smart hiring decisions

- Design and maintain a recruiting metrics dashboard tracking time to hire, pipeline conversion by stage, source quality, offer acceptance rates, and capacity utilization
- Audit the full hiring process across every function, diagnose where candidates stall and where we lose people we shouldn't, and fix it
- Partner with Finance and People Ops on headcount planning and req tracking to ensure approved hiring plans move through the pipeline on schedule

Enable hiring managers to be force multipliers

- Design and run hiring manager enablement programs including structured intake templates, interview guides, and calibrated scorecards that make hiring managers faster and more consistent
- Set SLAs across the recruiting process and hold all parties accountable to them
- Build documentation and playbooks that codify how we hire, from role kickoff to debrief to offer close, so the function scales without degrading
- Own interviewer training across the company, building a program that gets every new Profound employee ramped on structured interviewing, bias awareness, and consistent evaluation before they step into a loop

## Who you are

- Experienced operator and people manager with 6+ years in recruiting operations, HR systems, or a closely adjacent function, including 2+ years managing a team
- AI-forward: you've actively experimented with and deployed AI tools in a recruiting or operational context, and you think in terms of what should be automated vs. what requires human judgment
- Systems thinker who finds broken processes genuinely interesting and approaches them by mapping the full picture before touching anything
- Analytical and data-driven, able to build dashboards from scratch and translate recruiting data into decisions, not just reports
- Deep ATS fluency: you've configured and optimized ATS platforms, not just used them, and you know how to get them to do things most people don't
- Strong communicator and influencer who earns trust from recruiting teams and hiring managers alike, and can run enablement that actually sticks
- Builder mindset: comfortable operating without existing playbooks, excited by ambiguity, and oriented toward durable solutions over quick fixes
- High agency leader who identifies what needs to happen, mobilizes the team to execute, and doesn't wait for permission

Location This is an on-site role based in our NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. For this role, the expected base salary range is $175K - $215K. 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.

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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