--- title: 'Manager, Recruiting Operations at Profound' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/manager-recruiting-operations-profound-new-york-za4sfg37r2qn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-20' --- # Manager, Recruiting Operations at Profound - **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound) - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $175k–$215k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20 - **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. Recruiting Operations Manager As Profound’s first Recruiting Operations Manager hire, you’ll build the systems, processes, and team structure that enable us to scale hiring effectively. You’ll lead our Recruiting Coordinator team, own our recruiting systems and dashboards, and partner with recruiters and hiring managers to create a consistent, high-quality hiring experience. This is an opportunity to build the operational foundation of our recruiting function as Profound grows. ## What You’ll Do Lead & Develop Recruiting Coordination - Manage, develop, and grow our Recruiting Coordinator team, overseeing performance, workload, and professional development. - Establish team structure, capacity planning, and operating rhythms to support hiring goals. - Build onboarding, learning and development, and shadow programs to support coordinator training and growth. Own Recruiting Systems & Dashboards - Own and optimize Ashby, including ATS configuration, interview workflows, scorecards, integrations, and data integrity. - Build and maintain recruiting dashboards tracking pipeline health, time to hire, conversion rates, and team capacity. - Improve recruiting systems and processes to increase visibility, consistency, and operational efficiency. Build Interview Plans & Hiring Processes - Design and maintain structured interview plans, interview loops, and scorecards in partnership with recruiters and hiring managers. - Develop recruiting playbooks, templates, and documentation that standardize hiring practices across teams. - Identify bottlenecks and improve processes from role kickoff through offer close. Enable Hiring Managers & Interviewers - Develop hiring manager resources, interviewer training, and structured interviewing guidelines. - Establish clear expectations and service-level agreements to keep hiring processes on track. - Partner with Finance and People Operations on headcount planning, requisition tracking, and hiring progress. ## Who You Are - 6+ years of experience in recruiting operations, talent operations, recruiting coordination, or a related function, including 2+ years of people management. - Hands-on experience managing and optimizing ATS platforms, Ashby. - Experience leading Recruiting Coordinators and developing onboarding, training, or shadow programs. - Strong understanding of interview planning, structured hiring, and hiring manager enablement. - Data-driven, with experience building dashboards and translating recruiting metrics into actionable insights. - A strong cross-functional partner with a builder mindset, high ownership, and a passion for creating scalable processes. 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. 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