Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Job Title

Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Job Description

We are seeking a commercially-minded engineering leader to lead our Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) New Business team in EMEA. This role is pivotal in helping Intercom scale its AI-first platform to the world’s most complex organisations.

Key Responsibilities

As a hands-on leader, you will:

• Lead, coach, and nurture a high-performing FDE team while operating under pressure in high-stakes customer engagements.
• Own end-to-end outcomes through clarity in communication, speed of execution, tight coordination, and technical quality.
• Operate as a player-coach, actively engaging in strategic deals while developing team capabilities.
• Lead discovery, design, and delivery of tailored technical solutions, including PoCs, evaluations and business value assessments.
• Champion a customer-obsessed culture, noticing early indicators of success or failure in customer engagements and raising and correcting them with urgency.
• Support opportunities with technical guidance, architecture, demos, and product evaluation support, as well as sales expertise.
• Contribute to codifying successful deployments into reusable tools, playbooks, and inputs to the product roadmap, and create leverage for Intercom and our customers.

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical experience in roles such as Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Applied AI or related technical roles.
• Having 2+ years of experience leading technical customer-facing teams, with a proven track record of mentoring and managing high-performing teams.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to coach engineers through complex architectural trade-offs.
• Comfortable with a problem space that is ambiguous in nature, and capable of translating that ambiguity into clear signals for Product and Engineering and for positive customer outcomes.
• Ability to flex working hours to partner with global teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Bonus Skills & Attributes

• Experience selling and deploying AI, data, or highly technical products in complex enterprise environments.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI, with a desire to learn how ML systems are developed and operated in production.
• Experience hiring and managing high-performing teams.

Benefits

We are a well-treated bunch, with awesome benefits!

• Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
• We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
• Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
• Pension scheme & match up to 4%
• Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
• If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
• MacBooks are our standard, but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.