Senior Engineering Manager, Customer Agent

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · Dublin, Ireland · Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager to lead teams building an AI Customer Agent that works across the full customer lifecycle (support, sales, ecommerce, success). The role involves strategic ownership, people management, cross-functional collaboration, and driving execution in an AI-first culture, with a focus on product-minded leadership and technical credibility.

What you'd actually do

  1. You’ll own strategically significant work streams end-to-end.
  2. Be accountable for outcomes, not just delivery cadence or team health, but whether the work actually moved the needle.
  3. Manage from the front line: deeply understanding the product, the customer problem, and the context.
  4. Help shape teams operating in ambiguous spaces, especially where product direction is still emerging and close partnership with Product is essential.
  5. Work closely with cross-functional partners, including Product, Design, Sales, and machine learning engineers and scientists where relevant.

Skills

Required

  • Exceptional people leader
  • Personally action-oriented
  • Product-minded
  • Comfortable operating in early product formation
  • Strong product engineering instincts
  • AI fluency
  • Technically credible
  • Communication
  • Extreme autonomy
  • Critical thinking about the business

Nice to have

  • writing code yourself
  • doing the analysis
  • driving cross-functional collaboration
  • force-multiplying someone on your team who’s stuck
  • Develop senior engineers into leaders
  • accelerates staff and senior engineers
  • gives direct, actionable feedback that changes outcomes
  • grows the leadership capacity of the people around them
  • Partner with the Engineering Director on group-level strategy

What the JD emphasized

  • Fast-moving AI-native startups are shipping aggressively
  • AI fluency. You’re actively experimenting with AI-assisted development, forming opinions about how it changes the way teams build software, and pushing your teams to adopt new ways of working. This is table stakes for this role.
  • The competitive landscape is intense.

Other signals

  • AI Agent
  • customer experience
  • AI-first engineering culture