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Talent Engineer

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

Build AI-powered sourcing pipelines that identify and surface qualified candidates across LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, and other relevant sources, calibrated to the profiles that matter most for each role Automate resume screening and skills matching against role-specific scorecards so recruiters spend their time on the candidates worth talking to

What they're looking for

  • High-agency builder who approaches recruiting as a systems and data problem and can ship tooling that a recruiting team will actually adopt
  • Technically fluent in Python or JavaScript, comfortable building integrations across ATS platforms, job boards, calendar systems, and communication tools
  • AI-native thinker who defaults to automation and experiments with new approaches to sourcing, screening, and candidate communication
  • Experience building recruiting or HR technology, ideally at a company that builds tools in that space
  • Familiar with applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, and the operational workflows that sit around them
  • Systems thinker who understands what a recruiter’s day actually looks like and builds accordingly
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 Profound’s first Talent Engineer, you will build the tooling and automation infrastructure that powers how we hire. Part recruiting systems architect and part pipeline engineer, you will manufacture the tools that let every recruiter source better, move faster, and close more. Your work will directly shape how our Recruiting function scales.

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