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
As our Head of Security you will build and lead the company's security program as it scales into a trusted enterprise platform. This is a foundational, high-impact role: you'll own security strategy end-to-end while staying hands-on, working alongside an existing Security Engineer to mature Profound's program from "does the right things" to "provably does the right things at enterprise scale."
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in security, with progressively increasing scope, including experience owning a security program (not just executing within one)
- Prior experience as a first or early security hire at a high-growth startup, ideally SaaS/B2B, strongly preferred
- Hands-on technical depth — this is not a purely strategic/managerial role. Comfortable engaging directly on application security, cloud security, and incident response
- Direct experience owning SOC 2 (Type II) and driving compliance programs, experience with additional frameworks (ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.) a plus
- Experience leading and developing a small team
- Comfortable being the face of security to enterprise customers, including technical security reviews and questionnaires
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 Head of Security you will build and lead the company's security program as it scales into a trusted enterprise platform. This is a foundational, high-impact role: you'll own security strategy end-to-end while staying hands-on, working alongside an existing Security Engineer to mature Profound's program from "does the right things" to "provably does the right things at enterprise scale."
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