Intercom develops a customer communications platform powered by AI agents that automate and personalize support interactions for digital businesses.
<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://fin.ai/">Fin</a> is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><h2>What's the opportunity? </h2> <p>In the last six months we experienced an increase in demand for software engineers who work closely to our most strategic customers and help bridge the gap between their business goals and our AI Agent for Customer Service, Fin.</p> <p>As a founding Senior Forward Deployed Engineer you’ll get to interact with our R&D team and influence roadmap decisions while unlocking business impact for our customers. You’ll play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how our most strategic customers scale customer support. You will work closely with customers and our go to market team to deeply understand use cases and design, build, and implement solutions for them. </p> <p>If you’re looking for ownership, creativity, and the opportunity to lead R&D and Go-to-Market teams in a fast-paced environment, this role is for you.</p> <h2>What will I be doing? </h2> <ul> <li>Drive the adoption of Fin by helping prospects unlock the power of Fin's AI capabilities to automate and scale their support operations.</li> <li>Embed deeply with strategic customers to understand their business challenges and technical requirements in detail. Provide them with insight to achieve outstanding results with Fin.</li> <li>Work hands-on with customers' technical teams as a technical expert and trusted advisor, coding side-by-side to drive projects to completion.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with Sales, Success, and Product teams to ensure seamless customer experiences, project success and actionable product feedback.</li> <li>Contribute to and evolve the Forward Deployed Engineering function. Codify best practices and share insights gained from customer engagements to help us scale and grow.</li> </ul> <h2>What skills do I need? </h2> <ul> <li>Ideally, you’ve built an exciting SaaS product in your previous roles and loved the satisfaction that comes with knowing that people around the world are using something you’ve created. Bonus points if you’re a former founder or early engineer at a startup.</li> <li>You are interested in AI/ML. You’re good at quickly building a good understanding of novel problems, capabilities, architectures and understanding trade-offs and limitations</li> <li>Strong cross-functional collaboration. Ability to understand and navigate organizational boundaries and bring people together to achieve the best outcome for our customers and Fin.</li> <li>Deep knowledge of a high-level programming language (for example, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc.) but it doesn’t need to be a language that we use here. Great people are effective and learn what we use quickly (or introduce us to better ways of working)</li> <li>Able to prototype and ship software fast, while maintaining a high bar on quality and the focus on business goals and outcomes.</li> <li>Proficient using and writing REST APIs to integrate systems effectively.</li> <li>Strong communicator. Can easily talk to engineers and non-technical audiences about the same topics at different altitudes, and different levels of detail.</li> <li>Willing to travel and work on-site with customers to build strong relationships and deeply understand their needs.</li> </ul> <h2 id="content">Benefits </h2> <div class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;">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! </span> <ul> <li>Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up</li> <li>We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen</li> <li>Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!</li> <li>Pension scheme & match up to 4%</li> <li>Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents</li> <li>Flexible paid time off policy</li> <li>Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones</li> <li>If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too </li> <li>MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.</li> </ul> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Policies </strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 an