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# Member of Technical Staff, GRC Director at Profound

- **Company:** [Profound](https://feeny.ai/companies/profound)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Profound/53bd8e5f-97db-47b4-9b88-f29a043def12/application

**Skills:** SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, Compliance Frameworks, Audit Management, Risk Assessment, Identity and Access Management, Security Controls, GRC, Compliance Tooling, Policy Development, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud Infrastructure, APIs, Automation, DevOps, SAML, SSO

> The Security GRC Specialist owns and scales security and compliance programs, partnering with engineering and sales to ensure regulatory adherence and trust. Responsibilities include managing SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR frameworks, driving audits, automating controls, and translating compliance requirements into tech...

## 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 a GRC Director to own and scale our security and compliance programs while working closely with engineering, sales, and customer success. Profound sells to enterprises with serious security expectations, and our GRC function is central to closing deals, sustaining customer trust, and meeting the regulatory bar for the markets we operate in. This is not a "watch the dashboard and file the report" role. You'll shape how we build secure systems, push remediation through with engineering, and make sure compliance accelerates the business rather than slowing it down.

## What you'll do

- Own and operate our compliance frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and others as we grow
- Drive audits end to end: readiness, evidence collection, auditor coordination
- Continuously improve controls and reduce compliance overhead through automation
- Partner with Sales and Customer Success to unblock deals and build trust with security teams at Fortune 500 customers
- Develop and maintain our trust center, security whitepapers, and customer-facing documentation
- Work directly with engineering to design and implement practical security controls across our cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and customer-facing surfaces
- Partner on identity and access work (SSO, SAML, SCIM, IdP integrations) where security, compliance, and customer-facing requirements intersect
- Translate compliance requirements into technical, scalable solutions
- Identify gaps and drive remediation, not just report them
- Run risk assessments across systems, vendors, and processes
- Maintain policies and standards that are lightweight, current, and actually useful
- Track and report on our security posture and compliance status to leadership
- Improve how we manage compliance: evidence collection, control mapping, automation
- Evaluate and implement GRC and security tooling where it earns its keep

## Who you are

- 7+ years in security GRC, compliance, or adjacent security engineering roles
- Hands-on experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks
- Experience supporting audits and leading customer-facing security conversations
- Comfortable working with engineers and reasoning about cloud infrastructure, APIs, identity systems, and data flows
- Able to translate between compliance language and engineering reality in both directions
- Experience with modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is a strong plus
- Proactive and hands-on: you drive changes, you don't just track them
- Comfortable balancing rigor with pragmatism in a fast-moving environment
- Strong written communication, especially with enterprise customers and cross-functional partners
- Experience building or scaling a GRC program from early stages
- Familiarity with automation in compliance workflows
- Background in security engineering, DevOps, or identity and access management

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 $230,000 to $275,000, 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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