Product Manager, Core Product

Profound; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound is hiring a Product Manager for its Core Product team in Union Square, NYC. You will own one core area end-to-end, from strategy to delivery, working with analytics, agent automation, and vertical solutions that power AI-powered marketing insights.

You will lead discovery with customers, drive product direction, and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Engagement to craft compelling stories. Expect a fast-paced startup environment with equity, base salary, and benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building software products.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity and drive shipping of product.
• Comfort with SQL, dashboards, and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and drive execution for one core product area (Answer Engine Insights, Agent Analytics, Prompt Volumes, or related platform).
• Lead discovery with customers, gather feedback, and translate into requirements.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Engagement to tell compelling stories to prospects and customers.
• Coordinate with engineering, design, and data teams to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

SQL

Data analysis

AI/ML awareness

Tools

SQL

Analytics dashboards

Job description

Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage.

We went from 0 to a $1B valuation in 18 months. Revenue grew 100x last year. Our customers include Ramp, Figma, Spotify, Nike, Apple, AWS, Reddit, and JPMC. We are backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, LSVP, and Khosla Ventures — and we are moving fast enough that the people joining now are building the playbook everyone who comes after them will run.

Product managers here are true product owners, responsible for discovery, execution, and delivery end to end. This is a chance to build at the frontier of AI and marketing and make an impact that bends the trajectory of the company.

We're hiring across several product areas: analytics tools that help marketing teams understand their brand's performance on answer engines, an agent platform where marketers build and orchestrate agents to execute strategies and automate operations, and vertical solutions built for new use cases and strategic customer segments. As a Product Manager on the Core Product team, you'll own one of these areas end to end: driving strategy, shaping the product, and delivering outcomes that matter to customers and the business.

What You’ll Do

• Craft the strategy and drive execution for one of Profound's core product areas: Answer Engine Insights, Agent Analytics, and Prompt Volumes; the agent platform including background agents, the agent builder, and projects; or vertical solutions across Shopping, Ads, self‑serve, and agency workflows
• Define how customers measure, understand, and improve their brand's performance across AI‑powered answer engines: from prompt monitoring and competitive benchmarking to agent‑driven automation and vertical‑specific workflows
• Expedite execution across engineering, design, data, and marketing by creating clarity, making decisions, and managing scope
• Optimize the team for velocity and quality shots on goal
• Be in front of customers every day to do discovery, get feedback, and sell
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Engagement teams so that we tell compelling stories to prospects and customers

Who You Are

• 5 or more years of experience building excellent software products, ideally in a startup or fast‑moving company
• Domain expertise in one or more of: AI agent systems, LLMs, or prompt engineering; marketing analytics, data products, or BI tools; or ads, ecommerce, retail, agency workflows, or self‑serve B2B SaaS
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams through ambiguity, create clarity, and push teams to ship product and drive impact
• Strong product fundamentals with a spike in one or more of data, AI/ML systems, development, design, or enterprise go‑to‑market
• Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means creating prototypes, writing SQL, evaluating model outputs, building dashboards, creating content, or responding to support tickets
• You play on offense, creating and running toward opportunities and injecting energy into teams
• Experience as a founder, working at an early‑stage startup, or launching zero‑to‑one products is a plus

Location

This is an on‑site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $200,000 to $300,000. 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.