Talent Engineer

Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage. We went from 0 to a $1B valuation in 18 months. Revenue grew 100x last year. Our customers include 15% of the Fortune 500 like Walmart, Wayfair and U.S. Bank, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. We are backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, LSVP, and Khosla Ventures — and we are moving fast enough that the people joining now are building the playbook everyone who comes after them will run. As Profound’s first Talent Engineer, you will build the tooling and automation infrastructure that powers how we hire.

Responsibilities

Build AI-powered sourcing pipelines that identify and surface qualified candidates across LinkedIn, GitHub, job boards, and other relevant sources, calibrated to the profiles that matter most for each role; Automate resume screening and skills matching against role-specific scorecards so recruiters spend their time on the candidates worth talking to; Eliminate scheduling friction across the interview process through automated coordination and candidate status communications, so hiring moves without manual intervention; Build pipeline analytics and reporting that give the recruiting team real-time visibility into hiring velocity, source quality, cost per hire, and time to fill; Build an outbound recruiting motion that allows us to reach candidates directly and systematically, reducing reliance on external agencies; Generate candidate briefs automatically before each interview so every recruiter walks into a screen with full context on the person they are about to meet; Manufacture tools rather than operate them, building systems the recruiting team can run independently as they scale

Requirements

High-agency builder who approaches recruiting as a systems and data problem and can ship tooling that a recruiting team will actually adopt; Technically fluent in Python or JavaScript, comfortable building integrations across ATS platforms, job boards, calendar systems, and communication tools; AI-native thinker who defaults to automation and experiments with new approaches to sourcing, screening, and candidate communication; Experience building recruiting or HR technology; Familiar with applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, and the operational workflows that sit around them; Systems thinker who understands what a recruiter’s day actually looks like and builds accordingly; Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building a function from scratch

Nice to have

Ideally at a company that builds tools in that space

Benefits

Equity; Full range of benefits and perks