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
Find and qualify providers and partners against our coverage, quality, capacity, and cost requirements Structure vendor trials, run benchmarks using internal tooling, and analyze results by source, geography, and workload Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with external data or web data providers and partners, on either the vendor or customer side (e.g. sourcing and managing providers, solutions engineering, or technical account management)
- Strong commercial judgment, with examples of negotiations and measurable operating improvements
- Familiarity with data contract terms such as DPAs, usage rights, and indemnification
- Ability to use SQL and/or Python to inspect results, run evaluations, and challenge vendor claims
- Practical understanding of various data provider types, web data APIs, various data collection schemes, and common failure modes
- Evidence of introducing a working alternative provider or improving coverage, reliability, or effective cost
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.
As our Data Acquisition Lead, you will own the sourcing, evaluation, and commercial management of our data sources. You will build a reliable supplier and partner portfolio across various data providers. You will partner closely with Engineering, which owns production integrations and data collection infrastructure, as well as Product, Partnerships, Finance, and Legal.
Find and qualify providers and partners against our coverage, quality,...
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