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Forward Deployed Marketing Engineer

Profound· Customer Success
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New York, New York, San Francisco, California, London, England$150k - $210kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Marketing engineer embedded with customer teams to understand marketing workflows, identify opportunities for Profound, and build workflows and agents within the Profound platform to improve outcomes, adoption, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Be forward deployed. Work alongside customer marketing teams, onsite regularly. Join planning meetings, review briefs and campaigns, and use Profound with the people doing the work.
  • Recommend where Profound can help. Understand the team’s priorities, how they work and what slows them down. Bring proven applications suited to their business, and identify opportunities they may not have considered.
  • Apply marketing judgment. Review outputs with customers for accuracy, brand voice, audience fit and usefulness. Refine the inputs and instructions until the results meet the team’s standards.
  • Build and refine. Design, build, and troubleshoot agents and workflows in Profound that run real marketing work, from reporting and competitive research to content drafting and page audits.
  • Drive adoption. Help practitioners use Profound on live projects, resolve barriers and build their confidence to use it independently. Track usage and extend successful applications to more teams.
  • Work with the account team. Partner with Engagement Managers on priorities, stakeholder access and delivery; Account Managers on expansion opportunities; and Agent Engineers on complex builds, integrations and reliability.
  • Build partner capability. Work directly with our agency and consulting partners to identify how Profound can support their teams and client services. Help them put it into practice, train their practitioners, and collaborate on shared customer engagements.
  • Share what works. Turn successful applications into templates, training and playbooks that customers, partners and colleagues can reuse. Bring specific customer needs and recurring product gaps back to Product.

Qualifications

  • 2 to 6 years in marketing or working closely with marketing teams, whether in-house, at an agency or consultancy, or in a martech role
  • Builder aptitude with curiosity about how technology can improve marketing; technical experience not required but a plus (automation, configuring marketing tools, building with LLMs, or connecting systems)
  • Product depth and quick learning; willingness to become an expert in Profound; Profound University certification is a plus
  • Initiative and ownership; ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities without waiting for detailed instructions
  • Customer credibility and ability to communicate clearly; comfort working on-site and collaborating with customers’ teams
  • Tools and technology familiarity (HubSpot, Marketo, Braze, Segment, Clay); coding skills are welcome but not required
  • Specialized expertise in AI or marketing automation, or depth in a discipline/industry (e.g., content, lifecycle, pharma, CPG, banking)

Skills

Required:Marketing experienceBuilder mindsetProduct depthInitiative and ownershipCustomer credibility
Nice to have:Tools/tech experienceSpecialized expertise (plus)

Benefits

  • Base salary, performance-based bonus, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Optimize Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search

Profound helps brands gain visibility in AI-generated answers, optimize their presence in LLM-based answer engines, and stay competitive in the zero-click world.

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