Profound
Member of Technical Staff, Program Manager
New York, New York. Posted 3 days ago
The role
You will lead complex engineering programs that span teams and systems. You will turn broad technical goals into clear plans and drive them through implementation, adoption, and reliable operation.
What you will do
- Lead cross-team technical programs from initial scoping through rollout and adoption
- Work with engineering leads to understand system dependencies, sequence work, and build realistic plans
- Turn ambiguous requirements into concrete decisions and deliverables
- Coordinate platform migrations and the adoption of shared capabilities
- Partner with Product, Security, and other stakeholders to align technical delivery with customer and business requirements
- Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly
- Build lightweight planning and delivery practices
Required qualifications
- Experience leading complex technical programs across multiple engineering teams, with systems, migrations, or platform capabilities you helped bring into production
- A strong technical foundation in software engineering, infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Comfortable working across APIs, data flows, service dependencies, and operational requirements
- Able to create clarity when goals or ownership are ambiguous
- Trusted for sound judgment and follow-through, and able to align teams without reporting authority
- Clear in writing and conversation
Nice to have
- Experience as a software engineer, infrastructure engineer, or technical lead
- Experience delivering programs involving cloud infrastructure, data governance, identity and access, or multi-region systems
- Experience driving platform adoption or migrations in a fast-growing software company
- Experience building or operating AI-powered products and services
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity
- Full range of benefits and perks
About the company
Profound is an AI marketing platform used by the Fortune 500 and innovators. It provides research, briefs, content, campaigns, and reporting alongside agents.