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The Pre-Sales Senior Engagement Manager at Intercom is responsible for shaping customer deployment approaches for the AI Customer Agent, Fin, before contracts are signed. This role involves collaborating with customers and the Sales team to ensure a smooth implementation process, translating business requirements into clear Statements of Work, and contributing to process improvements in pre-sales and deployment services.

Salary Range

$134k - $160k/year

Experience Level

Senior Level

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Pre-Sales Senior Engagement Manager

IntercomChicago, IllinoisSales & Business Development

Posted Today

Full-Time

Employment Type

Remote

Work Location

$133,700 - $159,650

per year

About This Role

Fin

is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.

Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.

What's the opportunity?

We’re hiring a

Pre-Sales Senior Engagement Manager

to shape how we bring Fin to life for customers—before a contract is even signed. You’ll work directly with customers and our Sales team to define the right deployment approach so they can launch fast, see value quickly, and avoid painful rework later.

You’ll play a critical role in helping customers confidently invest in AI transformation—designing deployment approaches that balance speed, adoption, and long-term value.

This isn’t a “follow the playbook” role. You’ll be helping us

build the playbook

.

What will I be doing?

Turn ambiguity into clarity

Lead services scoping with customers (Director to C-level) to understand their support operations, goals, and constraints—and turn that into a clear deployment path forward

Own the story in pre-sales

Partner closely with Sales to position services, shape deals, and give customers confidence in how they’ll get value from day one

Scope what success looks like

Translate business and technical requirements into clear Statements of Work (SOWs)—including scope, assumptions, exclusions, timelines, dependencies, and customer responsibilities

Design AI-powered solutions

Help customers rethink their customer experience using AI—not just replicate old workflows with new tools

Assess complexity and guide the right approach

Evaluate deals across dimensions like workspace and workflow design, Fin readiness, migration complexity, and integrations - then translate them into clear Statement of Work (SOWs)

Be the bridge

Connect customer needs with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success—making sure what we sell is what we can deliver (and vice versa)

Improve the system

Contribute to process improvements, tooling, and scalable ways of working across pre-sales and deployment services

What skills do I need?

3–5 years in

consulting, pre-sales, solutions, or customer success

  • you’ve solved real customer problems before

You’re great at engaging both

technical teams and senior executives

  • seamlessly switching between deep technical detail and high-level business conversation

Proven track record in

creating accurate, customer-ready SOWs

that led to successful project delivery.

Strong commercial acumen and ability to partner

with Sales to drive revenue.

Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.

Familiarity with

SaaS + AI automation, integrations, and change management

best practices.

You’re

AI-curious and hands-on

  • you don’t just talk about it, you try things and understand how it changes workflows

You’re not afraid to

challenge customers (and internal teams)

when something doesn’t make sense

How Success Is Measured

Accelerate Deal Velocity

Reduce friction and eliminate ambiguity in how deployment services are scoped, ensuring customers understand the path to value faster

Drive Services Attach And Expansion

Help customers see the critical value of investing upfront to get their AI transformation right from day one

Scope For Delivery Success

Build solutions that actually work in the real world—protecting delivery margins through accurate resourcing and clear expectations

Deliver Real-world Adoption

Ensure your deployment designs lead to meaningful increases in automation, where customers see Fin working in production, not just on paper

Benefits

We are a well-treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us!

Competitive salary and meaningful equity

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Regular compensation reviews - great work is rewarded!

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

Flexible paid time off policy

Paid Parental Leave Program

401k plan & match

In-office bicycle storage

Fun events for employees, friends, and family!

*Proof of eligibility to work in the United States is required.

The base salary range for candidates within the Greater Chicago Area is $133,700-$159,650. Actual base pay will depend on a variety of factors such as education, skills, experience, location, etc. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All regular employees may also be eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Policies

Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Fin. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our

core values

.

Fin values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Fin will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

Compensation

$133,700 - $159,650

Annual salary

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