Member of Technical Staff, Product, CMS
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Profound. New York · full-time · $200,000–$300,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set the direction and roadmap for an AI-first CMS designed for people and agents to work together
- Shape the full content journey in Profound, from an agent's draft through review and approval to publication
- Talk with customers daily to map their real content processes, test ideas and guide product choices
- Work with engineering and design to deliver the CMS, staying involved from discovery through launch
What you bring
- At least five years building software products, preferably in a startup or similarly fast-moving setting
- A strong grasp of how teams create, review, approve and publish content at scale
- Product judgment to take a new product area from its earliest stage to launch
- Experience bringing cross-functional teams through uncertainty and helping them move work forward
Who this fits
This senior product-owner role suits someone who can set direction while also writing specs, joining customer calls or investigating production workflow issues. It is on-site in the New York or San Francisco office. Base salary is $200,000 to $300,000 per year.
From the employer
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.
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.
Profound Agents research, write, and publish content on behalf of marketing teams. The work they produce needs a home. We're building an AI-native content management system from the ground up, and this PM will define and own it.
What You'll Do
Define the vision and roadmap for Profound's AI-native CMS, built specifically for the way agents and humans work together
Own how content is created, staged, reviewed, and published inside Profound, from the first agent draft to the moment it goes live
Work directly with customers to understand how their content workflows actually operate and translate that into product decisions
Partner with engineering and design to ship a CMS that sets a new bar for what AI-native content tooling can be
Be in front of customers every day to do discovery, get feedback, and validate what you're building
Who You Are
5 or more years of experience building excellent software products, ideally at a startup or fast-moving company
Deep understanding of how content workflows work: how teams create, review, approve, and publish at scale
Strong product fundamentals and the ability to go from zero to one on a new surface
Ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity, create clarity, and push teams to ship
Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means writing specs, sitting on customer calls, or digging into a broken workflow in production
You play on offense, creating and running toward opportunities and injecting energy into places where there is none
Experience with agentic or AI-assisted workflows is a strong plus
Experience as a founder or building zero-to-one products is a plus
Location
This is an on-site role based in our NYC or SF 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.