Product Manager

Professionals today have no one in their corner when it comes to finding the right opportunities and collaborators. Profound exists because the way people represent themselves and get discovered is broken: static profiles, keyword filters, and cold outreach replace what should be a high-signal, high-trust process.

Profound is an AI-powered platform that helps professionals tell their story accurately and surface the right opportunities and collaborators at the right time.

The company raised its seed round from Stellaris and 3one4, and is building toward its first major scale milestone.

As Product Manager at Profound, you will own the hiring manager surface end-to-end, from the matching experience to the self-serve hiring funnel.

You will move the surface from a concierge-assisted model to a fully self-serve product, tune the matching logic for quality, and ship hiring manager features at high iteration speed. The role asks for sharp judgment on when to trust customer feedback over data, and the agency to unblock yourself and drive outcomes without a playbook.

You will work directly with the founding team and collaborate across product, engineering, and GTM.

The hiring manager surface is your product to define, build, and scale.

• The self-serve hiring funnel. Move the hiring experience from concierge-assisted to fully self-serve, end to end.
• Match quality and prompt tuning. Own the matching logic: understand how the prompt works, run experiments, and improve the hiring manager experience.
• Hiring manager feature roadmap. Identify, prioritize, and ship the features that make hiring managers successful on the platform.
• Customer feedback loops. Stay close to hiring managers, translate what you hear into product decisions, and close the loop fast.
• Concierge-to-product transition. Own the product side of any concierge support, and systematically replace manual steps with product.

• Shipped fast in an early-stage environment. You have worked at a seed or early-stage company and moved from idea to shipped product in short cycles.
• Owned a matching or discovery surface. You have built or improved a product where the core job is connecting two sides of a market accurately.
• Operated without a data safety net. You have made product calls when dashboards were thin, using customer conversations and judgment to move forward.
• Stayed close to users throughout. You speak to users regularly, not just at research sprints, and what you hear directly shapes what you build next.
• Unblocked yourself under ambiguity. When you hit a wall, you ask the right questions fast and keep moving rather than waiting for clarity to arrive.
• Articulated your work clearly. You can explain what you are building, why, and what it produced, to founders, engineers, and stakeholders alike.

• Move before the picture is complete. Ambiguity is the default; ship, learn, and adjust rather than waiting for full clarity.
• Stay in the user's world. Speak to hiring managers constantly; the product decisions that matter come from those conversations.
• Exercise judgment on data. Use transcript data and customer feedback as your primary signal; know when to act on it and when to push past it.
• Iterate visibly and fast. Progress is measured in shipped changes and closed feedback loops, not in plans written.
• Ask the right questions to unblock. When you hit a wall, surface it quickly and precisely so the team can help you move.
• Collaborate with confidence. Express what you are doing, why, and what you need; the team works best when everyone is direct and clear.

Cash compensation of ₹35L per year. You will work directly with the founding team, owning the hiring manager surface as a pure IC role. The role gives you full ownership of a core product surface at a company targeting its first major scale milestone.