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It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.\nBuilt on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.\nWe're hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Program Manager to lead complex engineering programs that span teams and systems. You'll turn broad technical goals into clear plans and drive them through implementation, adoption, and reliable operation.\nThis is a senior individual contributor role. 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