Currently tracking 18 active AI roles, down 73% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $158k–$374k (avg $261k).
Zendesk has 37 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on roles related to agents, accounting for 46% of their openings. Engineering is the most represented function, with 28 positions. The company is actively hiring in Portugal and Poland. Technical tags frequently appearing include model_serving, llm_observability, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models for customer service applications. Over the last 30 days, Zendesk has added 35 new AI roles, representing a 67% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Zendesk currently has 29 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Staff Software Engineer (3), Senior Product Manager (2), Staff Machine Learning Engineer (2), AI Agent Abuse Prevention Engineer, AI Services Consultant II. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Zendesk's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (52%), application (21%), post-training (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Zendesk is hiring AI talent in: Portugal (12 roles), Poland (6 roles), United States (5 roles), Ireland (3 roles).
Job postings at Zendesk most frequently reference: llm observability, agent orchestration, model serving, rag, guardrails.
In the past 30 days, Zendesk has posted 17 new AI-related roles. That is a -45% change versus the prior 30 days (31 → 17).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on building AI Agent experiences for customer support, involving reasoning, tool use, and integration with Zendesk systems. The role emphasizes end-to-end product development, reliability, and technical leadership. | Agent | 8 |
| AI Agent Abuse Prevention Engineer This role focuses on preventing abuse and ensuring security for AI agents within a SaaS customer support platform. Responsibilities include threat modeling, designing mitigation controls, building detection systems, and leading cross-functional security initiatives related to AI agents. | Agent | 7 |
| Director, Product Management Director of Product Management for Zendesk's Support Core organization, focusing on defining and leading the strategy for foundational support systems (Ticketing, Search, Email, Lists). The role involves transforming core systems into AI-forward, composable components, owning both platform capabilities and shared product experiences, and enabling product teams to move faster with AI-integrated solutions. This includes modernizing architecture, elevating developer experience, and embedding AI capabilities throughout the core. |
| AgentServe |
| 7 |
| Senior Product Manager - AI Agents Senior Product Manager to own the AI agent infrastructure for the Forethought platform. This includes the reasoning engine, authoring tools, self-improvement mechanisms, and multi-channel infrastructure. The role requires guiding roadmap development, defining the authoring and configuration experience, setting quality standards for AI agent interactions, designing for multiple personas, and leading hypothesis-driven product development. Requires 5+ years in B2B SaaS PM with experience shipping AI/ML products, a deep understanding of language models and agentic architectures, and a track record of defining quantitative success metrics for AI systems. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Manager, MarTech & AI Transformation This role focuses on architecting and driving the transformation of MarTech stacks towards AI-driven orchestration, including piloting GenAI use cases, managing vendor evaluations, and establishing AI governance. It involves integrating core Martech platforms with AI applications and predictive models, and upskilling the marketing organization. | Agent | 7 |