Account Executive, Agency

About the role

As an Account Executive focused on agencies, you will own the sales cycle with creative, media, and digital agencies that help the world’s biggest brands shape their use of AI. You will play a key role in expanding Profound’s agency partnerships, helping agencies manage, measure, and govern how AI shows up across their client work, operations, and campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Own the full agency sales cycle, from targeted prospecting through negotiation and close, across creative, media, and brand network agencies
• Develop and execute strategic outreach and relationship-building with agency leaders, innovation teams, and holding company partners
• Build and nurture long-term partnerships that position Profound as an essential part of agencies’ AI and brand safety strategies
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Partnerships, and Product to refine positioning, identify key use cases, and scale adoption across networks
• Help build our agency sales team, shaping our go-to-market motion, playbooks, and partnership approach as we expand

Qualifications

• A proven SaaS closer with experience selling into agencies, holding companies, or adjacent partner ecosystems such as creative, marketing, or technology
• Deeply familiar with the agency landscape and how agencies buy, partner, and drive value for brand clients
• Skilled in consultative sales and able to connect emerging technology to real business impact across creative, media, and client success functions
• Entrepreneurial and relationship-driven, energized by expanding a growing go-to-market motion and building trusted partnerships in a dynamic space
• Strategic, resilient, and motivated by the opportunity to represent a category-defining product at the intersection of AI, brand safety, and innovation

Location

This is an on-site role based in our NYC, SF, or London office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

Pay

The expected base salary range is $110,000 to $150,000 before commission (NYC and SF). 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.

Schedule

Our schedule is flexible to accommodate the needs of our remote team members.