Product Manager, Verticals

Profound•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence. Product managers at Profound are true product owners, responsible for the end to end success of their product: discovery, execution, and delivery. This is an opportunity to build products at the frontier of marketing and to make impact that bends the trajectory of the company. Profound is building the platform for the marketer of the future. We are hiring for a number of product areas, including analytics products that marketing teams use to understand their brand's performance on answer engines, agent platforms where marketers build and orchestrate agents to execute on marketing strategies and automate operations, and vertical solutions built to serve new use cases or strategic customer segments. As the Verticals PM, you will own Profound's highest-growth emerging segments: Shopping, Ads, self-serve, agencies, and new bets. You will go deep with customers in each segment, identify their specific unmet needs, and build solutions that are meaningfully differentiated from Profound's horizontal platform. This role is equal parts product strategy, customer obsession, and commercial instinct, and it's one of the most directly revenue-impactful roles at the company.

Requirements

5 or more years of experience building excellent software products, ideally in a startup or fast-moving company
Domain expertise in ads, ecommerce, retail, marketing technology, 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 enterprise go-to-market, design, development, or marketing
Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means creating prototypes, building dashboards, fixing issues in production, creating content, or responding to support tickets
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 launching zero-to-one vertical products is a plus

Responsibilities

Craft the strategy for Shopping, Ads, self-serve, agencies, and new verticals that accelerates Profound into becoming the essential platform for marketing teams in these segments
Define how retailers, advertisers, and agencies use Profound to track, understand, and improve their brand's visibility across AI-powered answer engines
Build the self-serve motion that lets customers onboard and extract value from Profound without high-touch sales, expanding reach and revenue
Develop product capabilities and workflows designed for agencies managing AI presence on behalf of multiple brands
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