# Member of Technical Staff, Head of Security at Profound

- Company: Profound
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://tryprofound.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $375K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/c841ad79-add2-4025-822a-ee68eb623989
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/profound-member-of-technical-staff-head-of-security/

## 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

Tags: Engineering