AI Strategist, Data

Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.

Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us.

We are hiring AI Strategists to do applied, analytical work at the front lines of how brands surface in AI systems.

This role is hands-on and executional. You will work directly with large-scale AI prompt data to analyze brand visibility across platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, and translate those findings into concrete, data-backed recommendations.

You will have direct exposure to Profound’s largest accounts and work closely with senior internal stakeholders. The work is technical, grounded in real data, and closely tied to how companies operate in an AI-first world.

• Partner with Fortune 500 brands as a strategic guide through the AI discovery landscape

• Perform applied analysis on LLM behavior, prompt patterns, and visibility mechanics

• Write SQL to extract and structure prompt-level datasets

• Use LLM-based workflows to classify, cluster, and synthesize unstructured data

• Produce concise analytical outputs used in senior-level discussions

• Bridge technical complexity and strategic clarity in client-facing work

• Partner closely with product, customer success, data, and engineering

• 2+ years of experience as a business operations analyst, forward deployed consultant, data analyst, or technical consultant

• Comfort working directly with raw data and writing SQL

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Naturally curious, with a tendency to ask follow-up questions and and explore edge cases

• High ownership and proactive by default, you take analyses end-to-end and surface next steps without being asked

• Experience building analytics dashboards, including Retool, Tableau, Looker, or similar

• Experience building tools or projects with AI, such as Cursor

This is an on-site role based in our NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $110,000 to $250,000, depending on experience. Profound’s total compensation package includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.

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