Profound is the AI marketing platform built for the agentic era. See what your customers ask AI, deploy agents to act on it, and measure the results in a collaborative workbench. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
About the role
Identify where M&A could accelerate Profound’s business, from engineering to go-to-market, by working closely with leadership and functional teams, and turn them into clear acquisition themes and strategy Evaluate whether each gap is best solved by building or buying, and make the case for when an acquisition is the right answer Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in corporate development, technology investment banking, venture, private equity, with several M&A or strategic transactions you personally led from sourcing through close and integration
- Experience in corporate development a high-growth technology or AI company is strongly preferred
- Strategic thinker who can diagnose where a business has gaps and translate them into a concrete deal thesis
- Strong negotiator and deal structurer, comfortable with valuation, financial modeling, and the legal mechanics of a transaction
- An established network of founders, investors, and bankers in the AI and software ecosystem
- Executive-level communicator who can influence founders, the board, and leadership
More about this role
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.
We are hiring a Corporate Development Lead to identify the highest-impact opportunities for M&A across the business, and to execute on them. You will work with leadership and teams across Profound to spot where acquiring product, talent, or data could move us faster, weigh build versus buy, and then own the deal end to end: sourcing, diligence, negotiation, close, and integration. This is not an origination-only seat. You will be in the...
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