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AEO/SEO Lead

Profound · New York, New York · On-site

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About Profound

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

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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years in SEO or organic growth, with experience owning a program and delivering measurable results. We weigh what you've built more heavily than time in seat
  • You've run hands-on AEO experiments and can explain what you tested, how you measured it, and what you learned
  • You understand technical SEO well enough to diagnose problems, prioritize fixes, and work through implementation with engineers
  • You have strong editorial judgment. You can write a useful brief, edit a page yourself, and recognize when content needs original expertise or research
  • You use AI tools regularly and can build or adapt workflows with APIs, scripts, or automation platforms
  • You can distinguish a promising signal from a result that needs more testing, and explain both clearly
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.

The Role

We're hiring an organic growth expert to own AEO and SEO at Profound. You’ll lead how we grow through AI answer engines, supported by a strong foundation in traditional search, and turn that visibility into qualified demand and pipeline.

You'll use Profound every day to grow Profound. That means finding where we're missing from relevant conversations, understanding which sources shape the answers, and getting changes live. You'll...

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