Full-Time

Senior Sales Strategy & Operations Manager

Posted on 5/18/2026

Intercom

Intercom

1,001-5,000 employees

AI-powered omnichannel customer support platform

Compensation Overview

$180k - $222k/yr

+ Corporate Bonus + Sales Incentive (OTE) + RSUs

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Three days on-site per week required.

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Forecasting
Salesforce
Data Analysis
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 7+ years of experience in Sales / Field Operations, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or AI company
  • Advanced Salesforce expertise: reporting, dashboards, data integrity, user administration, etc.
  • Exceptional analytical and data modeling skills: expert in Excel/Google Sheets; able to translate complex data into actionable insights
  • Strong project management skills: able to manage multiple projects from scope to delivery; organized and detail-oriented
  • Exceptional communication: clear, concise written and verbal skills; adept at presenting insights and recommendations to leadership
  • Strategic business acumen: able to translate sales strategy into operational plans; proactive, structured problem-solver with good judgment
Responsibilities
  • Strategic Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to Global Enterprise sales leaders, proactively understanding their challenges, identifying opportunities for improvement, and shaping clear, data-driven recommendations.
  • Process Design & Optimization: Develop, support, and continuously refine scalable operational cadences for sales forecasting, quarterly business reviews, and performance reporting. Follow and improve clear, efficient intake processes for new Sales Operations requests, ensuring effective prioritization and execution.
  • Strategic Project Leadership: Own and drive cross-functional projects, leveraging industry best practices in areas such as sales forecasting methodology, defining and optimizing books of business and account coverage models, and Salesforce enhancements. Bring structure and momentum to complex, cross-functional initiatives.
  • Forge Strong Partnerships: Collaborate with key stakeholders across Sales, Business Systems, Sales Enablement, Finance, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations to drive alignment and execution, ensuring processes and insights are tightly connected to stakeholder goals.
  • Data Analysis & Insight Generation: Regularly analyze sales performance data, developing and maintaining robust dashboards and reporting frameworks. Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and provide actionable insights and strategic recommendations to sales leadership on key trends, pipeline health, conversion rates, and areas for strategic intervention.
  • Innovate with AI: Identify opportunities to leverage AI to enhance existing processes, automate manual workflows, and improve the quality and accessibility of insights. Optimize relevant content and prompts for our internal AI content repository.
  • Drive Operational Excellence: Embody a culture of high standards, ensuring exceptional quality in all project deliverables, documentation, and sales enablement engagements that impact and drive change within the Sales team. Proactively document methods and reasoning so workflows are scalable and repeatable.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Tableau, Clari, Gong, Outreach, SQL
  • Experience with working closely with Enterprise Sales Operations

Intercom offers a cloud-based customer service and engagement platform for businesses. It uses an AI agent named Fin with an agent workspace and helpdesk to handle queries across chat, email, and social channels in 45+ languages; Fin uses a company’s knowledge base to autonomously answer questions and assist with service and sales, while the helpdesk provides an omnichannel inbox, ticketing, Copilot-guided live support, workflow automation, and reporting. It differentiates itself by combining AI automation with human-support tools in one platform for a wide range of B2B customers. Its goal is to improve the efficiency and quality of customer conversations across channels, supporting both support and sales.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$590.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Usage-based Fin pricing ties revenue directly to customer outcomes and ROI.
  • More than 45-language support expands appeal for multinational customer support teams.
  • Large installed base creates strong upsell opportunities for Copilot and automation.

What critics are saying

  • Salesforce Service Cloud bundling will pressure Intercom’s seat pricing within 12 months.
  • Zendesk’s cheaper AI deflection wins cost-sensitive mid-market customers and replacement deals.
  • Usage-based Fin fees trigger bill shock, slowing expansion and causing downgrades.

What makes Intercom unique

  • Fin is natively integrated, unifying AI agent, helpdesk, and proactive support.
  • Intercom serves over 25,000 organizations, including Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft Business.
  • May 2026 rebrand to Fin sharpens product identity around AI customer service.

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Benefits

We reward our people - All full-time Intercom employees are offered a rewards program that includes competitive base salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

We love to learn - There are so many opportunities here to learn and build a career. We support employees' growth by offering a wide range of continuing education options, including core skills, management training, and guided learning.

We take employee wellbeing seriously - We offer comprehensive healthcare coverage, including medical, dental, and vision, as well as employee assistance programs and mental health resources. We also offer flexible time off, significant paid family leave, and more.

The world has changed. So has the way we work - The majority of our employees say they prefer a hybrid model of work—some in-office time, some WFH—so that's our current approach. No matter what, though, we're committed to listening to our team.

Company News

Irish Independent
Mar 9th, 2026
Intercom secures $250M in venture debt to expand AI agent Fin and hire 650 people

Intercom has secured $250 million in venture debt from Hercules Capital to fund its AI expansion. CEO Eoghan McCabe said the funds will develop the company's Fin AI agent and support hiring of 650 additional employees. The customer service company plans to invest the capital in further developing Fin, Intercom's artificial intelligence platform. The debt financing from the Silicon Valley-based specialist lender represents a significant investment in the firm's AI capabilities as it scales its operations.

LinkedIn
Mar 9th, 2026
We just raised $250M to build the Customer Agent

Fin is the leading Service Agent product by any interesting metric. Customer count (8k), average resolution rate (67%), revenue (approaching $100M).

Tech.eu
Feb 11th, 2022
Ireland’s Intercom raises $125 million at $1.2 billion valuation

Intercom, developers of customer communications tools, has raised $125 million in a Series D…

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