Principal Program Manager

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Program Management

This role is for a Principal Program Manager at Intercom, an AI Customer Agent company. The primary focus is on managing high-priority objectives and programs that enable the company's AI agent, Fin, to succeed. The role involves defining programs with senior leadership, connecting execution to company strategy, driving cross-functional decision-making, managing risks, and improving program management practices. While the company is AI-focused and uses AI tools, the role itself is in program management, not directly building or researching AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner directly with execs and senior leadership to define programs of work that enable Fin to hit its highest priority company objectives
  2. Take a holistic view across programs, connecting the dots back to company strategy and surfacing gaps, misalignment, or opportunities to streamline
  3. Take ambiguous, high-stakes problems and drive them to clarity - defining the right structure, roles, and decision-making frameworks, often from scratch
  4. Drive cross-functional decision-making by identifying the right stakeholders, surfacing the information they need and recommendations
  5. Proactively identify program risks and anticipate change before it happens, driving action to course-correct and maintain momentum

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in program management
  • leading large, complex, cross-functional programs in a fast paced AI/SaaS B2B environment with an evolving strategy
  • working directly with senior level leadership
  • High ownership and agency
  • strategic thinking
  • solutions oriented and proactive
  • strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills
  • self-starter with a track record of seamless execution on complex programs with minimal guidance
  • built and significantly improved program management practices, frameworks, or ways of working at a previous company
  • Excellent communicator
  • Experience mentoring or developing others

Nice to have

  • Unlimited access to Claude Code and best-in-class AI tools; experimentation & building is encouraged & celebrated.

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of leading large, complex, cross-functional programs in a fast paced AI/SaaS B2B environment with an evolving strategy
  • Proven experience working directly with senior level leadership
  • High ownership and agency
  • strategic thinker
  • solutions oriented and proactive
  • strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills
  • excellent self-starter
  • built and significantly improved program management practices, frameworks, or ways of working at a previous company
  • Excellent communicator
  • Experience mentoring or developing others