Talent Engineer

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.

As Profound’s first Talent Engineer, you will build the tooling and automation infrastructure that powers how we hire. Part recruiting systems architect and part pipeline engineer, you will manufacture the tools that let every recruiter source better, move faster, and close more. Your work will directly shape how our Recruiting function scales.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build AI-powered sourcing pipelines that identify and surface qualified candidates across LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, and other relevant sources, calibrated to the profiles that matter most for each role

- Automate resume screening and skills matching against role-specific scorecards so recruiters spend their time on the candidates worth talking to

- Eliminate scheduling friction across the interview process through automated coordination and candidate status communications, so hiring moves without manual intervention

- Build pipeline analytics and reporting that give the recruiting team real-time visibility into hiring velocity, source quality, cost per hire, and time to fill

- Build an outbound recruiting motion that allows us to reach candidates directly and systematically, reducing reliance on external agencies

- Generate candidate ...