Product Manager, Platform

Profound•San Francisco, CA

1d•$200,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us. 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 the Platform PM, you'll own the foundational systems that every Profound customer and teammate depends on.Your core scope includes the infrastructure that makes Profound trustworthy, scalable, and enterprise-ready, including: identity and access management, permissions and roles, billing and subscription management, notifications, and authentication. You'll define how admins manage their teams, control access to sensitive data, and integrate Profound into their existing workflows.

Requirements

5 or more years of experience building excellent software products for enterprise, ideally in a startup or fast-moving company
Domain expertise in platform engineering, identity and access management, billing systems, or developer infrastructure. You understand how to turn complex technical requirements into clean, scalable product experiences.
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 security, systems design, enterprise go-to-market, or developer experience
Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means writing specs, digging into API docs, debugging auth flows, or responding to enterprise security reviews
You play on offense, creating and running toward opportunities and injecting energy into places where there is none

Nice To Haves

Experience as a founder, working at an early-stage startup, or building zero-to-one platform or infrastructure products is a plus

Responsibilities

Create the strategy that makes Profound's platform work for the largest brands in the world. This includes identity and access management, permissions and roles, billing and subscription management, notifications, and authentication.
Define how customers onboard, manage teams, and control access to Profound's products, from single-seat startups to Fortune 500 security and procurement teams
Expedite execution across engineering, design, security, marketing, sales and customer success 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 Customer Success teams so that we tell compelling stories to prospects and customers