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Salary: USD 265,000 - 365,000 / annual
Profound is a fast-growing AI marketing platform used by 15% of the Fortune 500 (Comcast, Estée Lauder, Walmart) and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. The platform consolidates marketing work—research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting—in one place, powered by AI agents that automate tasks like reporting, content drafting, page audits, and competitive research. Built on 2B+ real user prompts, Profound's data reveals what people ask AI and how models respond, enabling the AI Marketer to identify high-impact opportunities and deploy agents to execute them.
You will lead and grow the design team, setting the long-term vision for an AI-native product experience and establishing a cohesive design language across the platform. Reporting directly to the CTO, you'll work closely with founders and leadership to shape product strategy—design will be a central voice in product decisions, not an execution function. Key responsibilities include:
- Define the design vision and bring clarity to complex workflows
- Partner with founders, product, and engineering leadership on what to build and why
- Lead, level up, and hire designers; build a culture of high standards and ownership
- Stay hands-on with product judgment, visual and interaction design, and prototyping
- Create new interaction patterns for AI agents and complex data visualization
- Establish principles, systems, and rituals that enable rapid prototyping and shipping
- Conduct customer research to ensure solutions solve real problems for marketers
This is an on-site role based in the Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and impact. Visa sponsorship is available for qualified international candidates.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Led product design at an ambitious, high-growth technology company, setting vision, building teams, and influencing company-level product direction
- Exceptional taste with a portfolio of shipped, beautifully executed products; ability to raise team standards
- Experience hiring and developing designers; proven track record of raising quality of inherited teams
- See design and product strategy as inseparable; navigate ambiguity and influence founders, executives, and engineers
- Designed sophisticated B2B software, ideally platforms, analytics, data visualization, or complex workflows; ability to make powerful products feel simple
- Hands-on: comfortable presenting long-term vision, coaching designers, and prototyping in Figma or code
- Energized by AI, actively experiment with new tools, and have strong opinions on how AI will change products and design practice
