Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers

Profound; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound is seeking a Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers to lead and grow a specialist team delivering marketing engineering within client organizations. You’ll set delivery standards, coach practitioners, and ensure customer outcomes align with strategic goals.

You will work closely with Engagement Managers, Account Managers, and product teams, onsite with senior marketing leaders, to build repeatable templates and playbooks that scale our impact.

Qualifications

• Experience leading marketing engineering teams.
• Proven ability to drive customer outcomes and align with business goals.
• Strong coaching and performance-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Hire and develop the team, onboarding and coaching to build customer-facing engineers.
• Stay hands-on with customers, leading engagements onsite with senior marketing leaders.
• Set account delivery standards and evaluate outputs with product and engineering teams.
• Develop templates, training, and playbooks to scale successful approaches.
• Coordinate with partnerships, engagements, and account teams to maximize impact.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to address product barriers and improvements.
• Ensure consistent delivery and manage delivery quality across engagements.

Skills

Team leadership

Customer engagement

Onsite collaboration

Mentoring

Process improvement

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 . 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 . Read the Marketing Engineer manifesto , hear from practitioners on the Marketing Engineer podcast , or read our Founding Marketing Engineer's first-hand take on the role .

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,