Profound

Tech Lead Manager, Foundations

San Francisco, California · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$230k-$275kDetected 78 days ago

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About the role

You'll spend roughly half your time on technical leadership and architecture, and half on people management, hiring, and execution.
We expect you to write code, review PRs, and be in the details on critical decisions.

Lead the Foundations roadmap, partnering with the CTO, Head of Engineering, and product leadership on priorities
Hire and develop a team of 4 to 8 engineers, including running interview loops, calibrating performance, and setting expectations clearly
you understand the differences between self-serve and enterprise motions and can design systems that serve both without forking the codebase
We also expect you to grow engineers, run a tight planning process, and own outcomes for the team.
Strong product sense for B2B SaaS; you understand the differences between self-serve and enterprise motions and can design systems that serve both without forking the codebase
Comfortable being an IC contributor on the team you manage; we don't want a manager who has stopped writing code

7+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years managing or tech-leading a team
Deep, hands-on experience with identity and auth systems
you can reason about indexes, query plans, multi-tenant data models, and migrations without reaching for a tutorial
Experience with billing and metering systems, and an appreciation for how much edge-case logic lives in invoicing, proration, and high-volume event ingestion
Experience hiring senior ICs and giving direct, useful feedback
Experience scaling a foundations or platform team from a small group to 10+ engineers
Familiarity with WorkOS or similar identity platforms
Experience designing audit and activity log systems that meet enterprise compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Experience standing up admin and internal tooling that engineering doesn't have to babysit
Deep, hands-on experience with identity and auth systems; you've built or operated SAML, OIDC, and SCIM integrations in production and can reason about the security and UX tradeoffs

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.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $230,000 to $275,000, depending on experience.

Drive technical decisions on hard problems: authorization models that work across account types, identity provider integrations for enterprise customers, billing and metering logic that handles edge cases without breaking, audit systems that scale, and admin tooling that grows with the company
Be the engineering point of contact for enterprise customers when SSO, SCIM, or provisioning issues escalate
This is the team that decides how customers log in, how we model self-serve versus enterprise accounts, how we bill them, how we track what happens in the product, and how our internal teams operate it day-to-day.
The work is high-leverage, deeply cross-functional, and frequently customer-facing, since enterprise SSO and provisioning are often part of the sales process.

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