Product Manager, AI

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 AI PM, you'll own Profound's agent platform including background agents, the agent experience, and the opportunities system that translates AI-generated insights into actions. You'll define how Profound's agents proactively monitor brand performance, surface opportunities, and deliver insights to customers automatically. This role sits at the intersection of frontier AI and real marketing workflows, and is for someone who can turn the latest in LLMs and agent systems into product experiences that marketing teams actually love. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Craft the strategy for Profound's agent platform: background agents, agent experience, and the opportunities surface that makes Profound indispensable to marketing teams - Define the architecture and UX for how agents monitor brand performance, surface opportunities, and communicate insights to customers without requiring manual analysis - 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 AI agent systems, LLMs, prompt engineering, or AI infrastructure. You have built with these technologies, not just read about them. - 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 development, data, AI/ML systems, or design - Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means creating prototypes, evaluating model outputs, 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 - Experience as a founder, working at an early-stage startup, or launching zero-to-one AI 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 $160,000 to $260,000. 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,