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
Define and execute Profound's global partnership strategy across product, channel, agency, and data partnerships — with direct accountability for partnership-sourced pipeline and revenue Build and scale a Global Systems Integrator (GSI) program, establishing and deepening relationships with the likes of Accenture, Deloitte, Bain, Cap Gemini etc.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years in strategic partnerships, business development, or alliances in high-growth technology or SaaS, with a demonstrated track record of building programs that drive significant revenue and product value
- Deep experience running a GSI program
- Proven experience navigating the Agency ecosystem — you understand how holding companies and independent agencies make technology decisions and how to position a platform as essential to their client work
- Hands-on experience driving co-sell and marketplace programs through AWS, GCP, or Azure at scale, including marketplace listings, co-sell activation, and cloud-committed revenue motions
- Deep fluency in the AI landscape — including LLM providers, AI platforms, search technologies, and the broader application layer — and a clear point of view on where it's heading
- Executive-level communicator and relationship builder with a track record of closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals involving commercial terms, data licensing, technical integrations, and joint go-to-market commitments
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 VP of Strategic Partnerships, you will architect and lead the global partnership strategy that establishes Profound as the definitive platform for AI search optimization. You will define the vision, build the team, and personally drive the highest-leverage relationships across the AI ecosystem — from major agency networks and global systems integrators to hyperscale cloud marketplaces and enterprise B2B platforms.
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