MARKETERS ARE REBRANDING AS ‘ENGINEERS' TO SURVIVE THE AI ERA

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The marketing engineer is pitched as part builder and part marketer, someone who deploys AI agents to automate work like media buying and personalized ads while supplying the taste those agents lack. Profound, recently valued at $1.8B, has tied its brand to the title with a dedicated job board, a hackathon, and a podcast. Skeptics see a dressed-up successor to "digital ninja" and "storyteller" in an attempt to borrow engineering's sense of precision.