Product Manager, Verticals

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📍 New York, New YorkFullTime💰 USD 160K–250K/yr

About this role

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.

Product managers here are true product owners, responsible for discovery, execution, and delivery end to end. This is a chance to build at the frontier of AI and marketing and make an impact that bends the trajectory of the company.

We're hiring across several product areas: analytics tools that help marketing teams understand their brand's performance on answer engines, an agent platform where marketers build and orchestrate agents to execute strategies and automate operations, and vertical solutions built for new use cases and strategic customer segments.

As the Verticals PM, you'll own Profound's highest-growth emerging segments including Shopping, Ads, self-serve, agencies, and new bets. You'll go deep with customers in each segment, identify their specific unmet needs, and build solutions that are meaningfully differentiated from Profound's horizontal platform. This role blends product strategy, customer obsession, and commercial instinct, and it's one of the most directly revenue-impactful positions at the company.

What You'll Do

  • Craft the strategy for Shopping, Ads, self-serve, agencies, and new verticals that accelerates Profound into becoming the essential platform for marketing teams in these segments

  • Define how retailers, advertisers, and agencies use Profound to track, understand, and improve their brand's visibility across AI-powered answer engines

  • Build the self-serve motion that lets customers onboard and extract value from Profound without high-touch sales, expanding reach and revenue

  • Develop product capabilities and workflows designed for agencies managing AI presence on behalf of multiple brands

  • Expedite execution across engineering, design, data, and marketing by creating clarity, making decisions, and managing scope

  • Optimize the team for velocity and quality shots on goal

  • Be in front of customers every day to do discovery, get feedback, and sell

  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Engagement teams so that we tell compelling stories to prospects and customers

Who You Are

  • 5 or more years of experience building excellent software products, ideally in a startup or fast-moving company

  • Domain expertise in ads, ecommerce, retail, marketing technology, agency workflows, or self-serve B2B SaaS

  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity, create clarity, and push teams to ship product and drive impact

  • Strong product fundamentals with a spike in one or more of enterprise go-to-market, design, development, or marketing

  • Willing to roll up your sleeves to help the team execute, whether that means creating prototypes, building dashboards, fixing issues in production, creating content, or responding to support tickets

  • You play on offense, creating and running toward opportunities and injecting energy into places where there is none

  • Experience as a founder, working at an early-stage startup, or launching zero-to-one vertical products is a plus

Location

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

For this role, the expected base salary range is $160,000 to $260,000. 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.

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Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.

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What is the salary for the Product Manager, Verticals role at profound?
The listed salary for this Product Manager, Verticals position at profound is USD 160K–250K/yr. This is an FullTime role.
Where is the Product Manager, Verticals position at profound located?
This Product Manager, Verticals role at profound is based in New York, New York. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Product Manager, Verticals role at profound full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Product Manager, Verticals role in the Product department at profound.
Which team or department does the Product Manager, Verticals at profound belong to?
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When was the Product Manager, Verticals job at profound posted?
This Product Manager, Verticals position at profound was posted on Apr 27, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Product Manager, Verticals
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