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About the Role
Profound is seeking a Data Acquisition Lead to own the sourcing, evaluation, and commercial management of data sources. This role involves building a reliable supplier and partner portfolio and collaborating closely with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, Finance, and Legal.
Responsibilities
- Find and qualify providers and partners against coverage, quality, capacity, and cost requirements.
- Structure vendor trials, run benchmarks, and analyze results by source, geography, and workload.
- Compare effective costs across various pricing models.
- Negotiate pricing, service commitments, support arrangements, renewals, and exit terms.
- Maintain qualified alternatives and identify overlapping infrastructure or correlated failure risks.
- Lead vendor performance reviews and recommend changes.
- Coordinate onboarding and sourcing documentation with Engineering, Finance, and Legal.
- Own vendor contracts and spend, maintaining records of vendor status, pricing, and decisions.
- Partner cross-functionally to resolve provider issues.
- Help build and scale the data acquisition team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with external data or web data providers and partners (vendor or customer side).
- Strong commercial judgment with examples of negotiations and measurable operating improvements.
- Familiarity with data contract terms such as DPAs, usage rights, and indemnification.
- Ability to use SQL and/or Python to inspect results, run evaluations, and challenge vendor claims.
- Practical understanding of various data provider types, web data APIs, data collection schemes, and common failure modes.
- Evidence of introducing a working alternative provider or improving coverage, reliability, or effective cost.
- Experience with unique data sets is a plus.
- Excited by the opportunity to own and shape a new function at an early stage.
- Comfortable in a fast-moving culture with autonomy, trust, and room to grow.
- Drawn to competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
Location
- Union Square, NYC
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 to $275,000
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Meaningful equity
- Full range of benefits and perks
- Visa sponsorship support for qualified international candidates
About the Company
- Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma.
- Profound is where marketing teams do their work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load.
- Profound's AI Marketer uses data from 2B+ real user prompts to identify opportunities and automate tasks like reporting, content drafting, page auditing, and competitive research.
- The platform measures what works and improves daily.