Design Engineer

This is an in-person position in New York City. No remote.

Please include examples of data design (tables, charts, visualization) in your application.

Profound is an AI Visibility start-up based in NYC. We're moving fast and hiring the best in the city to come and build our company from the ground up.

If you want face pace, excitement, days full of action and to experience getting into a high-growth startup in the earliest stages, this is for you.

Company Overview

Millions of consumers now use AI Search like ChatGPT to discover brands, research products, and inform purchase decisions.Profound is a new tool that helps businesses understand and improve their presence in AI Answers.

By running high-volume inference, Profound builds a picture of how these AI systems surface brands, products, and industries. Profound then crawls the internet to find related sources and citations, providing actionable insights for brand-owners to improve their performance over time.

💰 Just closed $3.5M seed round investment. Backed by big name VCs like Khosla + Saga Ventures + South Park Commons & angels: Scott Belsky + Balaji S. + Karim Atiyeh

📈 Strong early customer traction / revenue

🤝 Team is ex-Uber and exited founder

🗽 Based in NYC (Manhattan) - in person 5 days a week

Read more about us here:

• TechCrunch

• AdWeek

• New York Times

Position Overview

We're looking to hire a Founding Design Engineer to lead all product design and front-end development at Profound. Your main focus will be developing and iterating on the Profound Dashboard, a suite of tools to help enterprise brands understand and improve their AI Visibility.

This position will require experience and expertise in working with data + visualizations.

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience as a design engineer building real things

• Expert at Figma (components, variables, prototyping, etc)

• Expert at front-end development (React, Next.js, TypeScript, CSS, etc)

• Ability to translate vague business requirements into high fidelity designs and flows

• Ability to understand and analyze product data and analytics in order to support your design decisions

• An incredible portfolio of existing high quality, converting, and beautiful work.

• A passion for building stellar products