Geared toward mid-level SaaS professionals comfortable with managing agency partnerships and driving revenue through renewals and expansions in AI marketing.
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Original posting from Profound via Ashby
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.
As an Account Manager, Agencies, you'll be at the center of this transformation and drive growth across your customers. You'll partner directly with Profound’s agency partners’ executives and key stakeholders to understand their business goals, address pain points, and ensure Profound is delivering clear, measurable ROI for the agencies and for their end clients. Working closely with our Agency Engagement Managers and Agency Account Executives, you'll connect platform usage and engagement to real business outcomes, and expand relationships both within agencies and with their end clients.
What you’ll do
- Own a portfolio of 40 to 60 accounts (depends on contract values) and be directly responsible for renewal and expansion revenue
- Co-manage the customer lifecycle with the Agency Engagement Management team from onboarding through expansions and renewals, identifying opportunities to deepen adoption and value for the agency and their clients
- Develop a deep understanding of each customer’s goals, workflows, and organization to position Profound as a must-have partner
- Partner with agencies to build strong relationships with enterprise brands along the way, empowering agency stakeholders and their client stakeholders
- Build organizational maps of agencies to expand relationships and impact
- Build and manage a pipeline of renewals, cross-sells, and upsells against monthly and quarterly revenue targets
- Lead commercial conversations including executive business reviews and negotiations for multi-product renewals and upsells
- Forecast with precision using CRM data and pipeline management best practices to ensure transparency and accountability
- Drive mutual value for agencies who are part of the Profound Partners program, in collaboration with the Ecosystem team (joint GTM, training and enablement, etc.)
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Agency Account Executives and Agency Engagement Managers to deliver a seamless agency partnership experience and surface insights that drive adoption
Who you are
- 5 or more years of SaaS experience in account management, renewals, or expansion sales, with a specific focus on agencies and agency partnerships
- Track record of exceeding commercial targets through renewals and upsells, with quota-carrying experience preferred
- Strong consultative selling skills and comfort leading discovery, demos, and business reviews with senior stakeholders
- Excellent negotiation and closing skills with the ability to manage complex deals and procurement processes
- High emotional intelligence and communication skills, able to build trust quickly and manage multiple, matrixed stakeholder relationships, at the independent / subsidiary agency level and at the holding company level
- Highly organized and data-driven with strong pipeline discipline and attention to detail
- Entrepreneurial mindset, resourceful, proactive, and comfortable owning outcomes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- High integrity and long-term orientation, motivated by customer and partnership success and sustainable revenue growth
Location
This is an on-site role based in our NYC or London office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.
For this role, the expected base salary range is $90,000 to $140,000 before variable compensation. 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.
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.
Source: Profound careers (Ashby)