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# Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager at Profound

- **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/5c42e9e3-01c6-41ea-8d13-99a487716f37

## 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 are hiring an Engineering Manager in New York City to lead the team building triggers that initiate agent work, reliable automation and workflow execution, and collaborative tools for creating, organizing, and coordinating work. You will report to the Head of Engineering and manage a team of 8 to 12 engineers. Your primary responsibilities are people management, coaching, hiring, performance, and delivery. The technical lead owns technical direction. Strong production Rust proficiency is required so you can coach engineers effectively, understand technical tradeoffs, and be an informed partner to the TL.

## What you'll do

- Hire and develop a strong team of engineers. Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and build a culture of ownership, trust, and accountability
- Own team planning and delivery with product and the technical lead. Make priorities, capacity, and dependencies explicit, and turn broad goals into achievable milestones
- Coach engineers through one-on-ones, career development, and performance conversations. Understand what each person needs to grow and help them do their best work
- Partner closely with the technical lead, who owns architecture and technical direction. Ensure the team has the context, capacity, and support to execute, and use your Rust background to ask informed questions and understand risks
- Identify delivery risks early, remove organizational blockers, and coordinate cross-team dependencies. Communicate progress and changes clearly rather than letting surprises accumulate
- Build sustainable team practices around on-call, incidents, and support. Balance operational work with planned delivery, protect team health, and make sure improvement work has an owner and time to get done
- Coordinate with product and partner engineering teams, including the team building the agent harness, to align priorities and handoffs across agent execution, automations, and collaborative tools

## Who you are

- 10+ years of experience
- Strong production Rust proficiency. You have shipped and operated Rust systems and can use that experience to coach engineers, understand technical tradeoffs, and support the technical lead
- Direct engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and delivery accountability. You can point to how you helped engineers grow and teams become more effective
- Experience building and operating complex backend or platform systems, with an understanding of the failure modes that emerge as usage and complexity grow
- You earn the trust of senior engineers and technical leads through clear expectations, sound judgment, and follow-through. You delegate technical ownership while staying informed and supportive
- You can balance team health, delivery commitments, and technical investment, making capacity and priority decisions explicit
- You communicate clearly across engineering, product, and other partners, especially when requirements are ambiguous or priorities need to change

## Nice to have

- Experience with workflow engines, durable execution, scheduling, or event-driven systems
- Experience building collaborative documents, spreadsheets, file or artifact systems, project workspaces, or calendar products
- Experience building products where people and agents work together
- Experience growing an engineering team while maintaining technical quality and clear ownership

Location This is an in-person role based in our New York City office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. For this role, the expected base salary range is $250,000 to $320,000, depending on experience. Profound's total compensation package 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. [tryprofound.com/blog – Series C announcement](https://www.tryprofound.com/blog/profound-raises-96m-series-c)

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