Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers

New York · San Francisco · London · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 7, 2026

At a glance

As the Manager, Forward Deployed Marketing Engineers, you'll lead and develop the team that brings Marketing Engineering to the world's biggest brands.
You'll set the standard for how Profound deploys inside customer marketing teams, and you'll be accountable for whether the workflows your team ships become part of how those customers work every week.

Hire and develop the team by recruiting strong marketing practitioners, leading onboarding, and coaching them to become effective customer-facing builders in Profound.
Stay hands-on with customers by leading selected engagements alongside your team, working onsite with practitioners, and building relationships with senior marketing leaders.
Manage performance by setting account-specific goals, reviewing usage, coaching your team on necessary actions to improve results, and helping resolve delivery gaps.
Set delivery standards by establishing how the team understands customer needs, recommends applications, builds in Profound, evaluates outputs, and trains users.
Coach marketing judgment and customer leadership to help your team assess quality, develop clear recommendations, and earn trust with practitioners and executives.
Build partner capability by working with the partnerships team to help agencies and consultancies adopt Profound within their own teams and client services.
Coordinate account delivery by working with Engagement Managers on account priorities and allocating your team's time for the greatest impact.
Partner with technical teams and Product by bringing in Agent Engineering for complex builds and reliability issues, and documenting product barriers.
Make successful approaches repeatable by turning proven applications into templates, training, and playbooks that customers, partners, and Profound teams can use independently.

6+ years working in marketing or closely with marketing teams, such as in-house, at an agency or consultancy, or in a martech solutions or consulting role.
Experience managing or formally leading practitioners, ideally in a customer-facing or consulting team.
Builder aptitude with comfort learning and applying technology to marketing problems and helping others do the same.
Product depth with the ability to learn tools quickly and deeply and become an expert in Profound.
Customer credibility to earn trust with practitioners and senior marketing leaders, lead executive conversations, and navigate complex customer relationships.

On-site role based in NYC, SF, or London office with regular travel to customer sites.