Implementation Manager

Decagon Decagon · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Deployment Strategists

This role is for an Implementation Manager at Decagon, a conversational AI platform company. The manager will lead the implementation of AI agents for enterprise customers, focusing on strategy, execution, and scaling the implementation function. They will design playbooks, improve processes using AI tools and automation, and partner with various teams to ensure successful deployments and customer success. The role requires experience in implementations, consulting, or project management, with a preference for experience in deploying AI or customer service platforms.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead enterprise AI Agent implementations from kickoff through rollout, driving execution, adoption, and business outcomes.
  2. Design implementation strategies tailored to each customer’s goals and technical environment.
  3. Build and own the Implementation playbook, including the processes and standards that enable scalable, high-quality deployments.
  4. Improve speed, quality, and consistency across implementations by identifying bottlenecks and introducing better systems, tooling, and automation.
  5. Partner cross-functionally to scope requirements, configure solutions, and feed insights back into Product.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years in implementations, consulting, onboarding, project management, or customer-facing technical roles.
  • Experience leading complex software or AI implementations with measurable results.
  • Technical fluency with SaaS platforms, integrations, and APIs.
  • Strong operational instincts with experience building scalable processes or playbooks.
  • Clear communicator who can work effectively with both executives and operators.
  • Highly organized and comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience deploying AI, automation, or customer service platforms.
  • Familiarity with enterprise systems such as Zendesk or Salesforce.
  • Experience building a new function or operating model from the ground up.
  • Power user of AI tools who uses them to transform workflows, increase leverage, and drive meaningful efficiency gains.

What the JD emphasized

  • build and scale the function
  • build a new function or operating model from the ground up