Senior Engineering Manager, Fin AI Agent

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · IE Dublin · Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager for an AI Customer Agent company, focusing on the Service Agent pillar. The role involves owning strategically significant work streams end-to-end, leading dynamic teams, driving execution under aggressive timelines, developing senior engineers, and partnering on pillar-level strategy. Requires exceptional people leadership combined with hands-on, action-oriented execution in an AI-first culture, with a strong understanding of product and operating at scale with startup energy.

What you'd actually do

  1. You'll own strategically significant work streams end-to-end.
  2. We regularly spin up new work streams around emerging priorities. You'll bring together engineers who've never worked as a team, set high expectations, build momentum under aggressive timelines, and drive execution.
  3. You'll develop senior engineers into leaders.
  4. You'll partner with the Engineering Director on pillar-level strategy.
  5. And you'll do all of this in an AI-first engineering culture.

Skills

Required

  • People leadership
  • Action-oriented execution
  • Product understanding
  • Experience operating at scale
  • Startup energy/bias for action
  • AI fluency
  • Technical credibility
  • Communication skills
  • Autonomy
  • Critical thinking about the business

Nice to have

  • Mentoring junior engineers on basics
  • Deepest engineer in the room

What the JD emphasized

  • AI Agent
  • AI-first engineering culture
  • AI-assisted development
  • exceptional people leader AND personally action-oriented
  • Product-minded, not process-minded
  • Operated at real scale with startup energy
  • AI fluency
  • Technically credible
  • Extreme autonomy

Other signals

  • AI Customer Agent
  • highest-performing AI Customer Agent
  • resolves complex customer issues end-to-end
  • AI-first engineering culture
  • AI-assisted development