Profound is on a mission to help companies understand and control their AI presence. As an Account Executive focused on agencies, you will own the sales cycle with creative, media, and digital agencies that help the world’s biggest brands shape their use of AI. You will play a key role in expanding Profound’s agency partnerships, helping agencies manage, measure, and govern how AI shows up across their client work, operations, and campaigns. What you’ll do Own the full agency sales cycle, from targeted prospecting through negotiation and close, across creative, media, and brand network agencies Develop and execute strategic outreach and relationship-building with agency leaders, innovation teams, and holding company partners Build and nurture long-term partnerships that position Profound as an essential part of agencies’ AI and brand safety strategies Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Partnerships, and Product to refine positioning, identify key use cases, and scale adoption across networks Help build our agency sales team, shaping our go-to-market motion, playbooks, and partnership approach as we expand
Who you are A proven SaaS closer with experience selling into agencies, holding companies, or adjacent partner ecosystems such as creative, marketing, or technology Deeply familiar with the agency landscape and how agencies buy, partner, and drive value for brand clients Skilled in consultative sales and able to connect emerging technology to real business impact across creative, media, and client success functions Entrepreneurial and relationship-driven, energized by expanding a growing go-to-market motion and building trusted partnerships in a dynamic space Strategic, resilient, and motivated by the opportunity to represent a category-defining product at the intersection of AI, brand safety, and innovation Location This is an on-site role based in our NYC, SF, or London office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. For this role, the expected base salary range is $110,000 to $150,000 before commission (NYC and SF). Profound’s total
compensation package is designed to be competitive and 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.
Profound is the GenAI marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands win in the age of AI-driven discovery.
We help enterprise brands understand and optimize how they show up across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI platforms where hundreds of millions of consumers now discover products.
Our platform provides real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and actionable insights across the entire GenAI ecosystem - enabling marketing teams to turn AI-driven discovery into their competitive advantage.
Salary
$110,000 - $150,000
Location
New York, San Francisco + 2 more
Total raised
$155.0M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
James Cadwallader
Co-founder, CEO
Dylan Babbs
Co-founder
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.