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Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager

Profound· Engineering
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New York, New York$250k - $320kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Engineering Manager in New York City leading a team of 8 to 12 engineers focused on building triggers, automated workflows, and collaborative tools for agent execution and automation within Profound's AI marketing platform.

Responsibilities

  • Hire and develop a strong team of engineers. Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and build a culture of ownership, trust, and accountability
  • Own team planning and delivery with product and the technical lead. Make priorities, capacity, and dependencies explicit, and turn broad goals into achievable milestones
  • Coach engineers through one-on-ones, career development, and performance conversations. Understand what each person needs to grow and help them do their best work
  • Partner closely with the technical lead, who owns architecture and technical direction. Ensure the team has the context, capacity, and support to execute, and use your Rust background to ask informed questions and understand risks
  • Identify delivery risks early, remove organizational blockers, and coordinate cross-team dependencies. Communicate progress and changes clearly rather than letting surprises accumulate
  • Build sustainable team practices around on-call, incidents, and support. Balance operational work with planned delivery, protect team health, and make sure improvement work has an owner and time to get done
  • Coordinate with product and partner engineering teams, including the team building the agent harness, to align priorities and handoffs across agent execution, automations, and collaborative tools

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience
  • Strong production Rust proficiency. You have shipped and operated Rust systems and can use that experience to coach engineers, understand technical tradeoffs, and support the technical lead
  • Direct engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and delivery accountability. You can point to how you helped engineers grow and teams become more effective
  • Experience building and operating complex backend or platform systems, with an understanding of the failure modes that emerge as usage and complexity grow
  • You earn the trust of senior engineers and technical leads through clear expectations, sound judgment, and follow-through. You delegate technical ownership while staying informed and supportive
  • You can balance team health, delivery commitments, and technical investment, making capacity and priority decisions explicit
  • You communicate clearly across engineering, product, and other partners, especially when requirements are ambiguous or priorities need to change

Skills

Required:RustPeople managementCommunication

Benefits

  • Base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks (as part of total compensation)
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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