Account Executive, Emerging AI Products

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales

This role is for an Account Executive focused on selling Intercom's new AI Sales Agent product. The AE will be responsible for the full sales cycle, from discovery to close, working with a specialist team to land early customers, prove ROI, and shape the go-to-market strategy. The role requires strong consultative selling skills and the ability to work closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the full sales cycle for Sales Agent, from first conversation through evaluation, executive alignment, and close
  2. Run discovery with Sales, RevOps, and Marketing leaders to understand their inbound motion, define success, and quantify impact
  3. Design and manage structured evaluations with your Solutions Engineer partner to prove measurable outcomes and create conviction
  4. Build and refine how we sell this product, including messaging, objection handling, competitive narratives, evaluation frameworks, and ROI proof points
  5. Provide structured feedback to Product, Marketing, and Pricing based on patterns across deals, including feature gaps, objections, and willingness to pay signals

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience running full cycle SaaS sales processes from discovery through close
  • Demonstrated ability to sell a new or evolving product where positioning, ROI narrative, and evaluation plan are still being refined
  • Experience selling to sales leadership, RevOps, Marketing leadership, or adjacent GTM personas
  • Strong consultative selling and discovery skills with the ability to quantify value and align multiple stakeholders
  • Comfort running structured evaluations and coordinating technical and commercial workstreams with Solutions Engineers and cross-functional partners
  • Ability to synthesize customer feedback into clear product insights and messaging recommendations
  • High ownership and adaptability in fast-moving environments

Nice to have

  • Experience selling within sales tech or martech ecosystems
  • Experience in a startup, scale-up, or new product line environment where you contributed to early go-to-market learning
  • Familiarity selling AI-enabled products or automation tools
  • Experience operating in an overlay or specialist model alongside account owners

What the JD emphasized

  • selling a new or evolving product where positioning, ROI narrative, and evaluation plan are still being refined
  • Ability to synthesize customer feedback into clear product insights and messaging recommendations
  • High ownership and adaptability in fast-moving environments