Full-Time

Business Development Representative

Intercom

Intercom

1,001-5,000 employees

AI-powered omnichannel customer support platform

Compensation Overview

$40.10 - $47.91/hr

+ Incentive Compensation + RSUs

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

Three days per week on-site required.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Cold Calling
Requirements
  • Strong desire to build a career in Sales, you want to be an Account Executive or a closing based role in the future
  • 1+ year of customer-facing work experience (Sales and/or SaaS experience is a +)
  • Experience and success from working with Enterprise sized accounts.
  • Operational Excellence: You can use your time in an effective and efficient manner to complete revenue driving activities, you can quickly identify where to focus your efforts to drive more pipeline.
  • Competitive Landscape & Industry Knowledge is crucial. You’ll bring an understanding of the SaaS landscape and our target verticals. You always want to stay on top of the latest news & industry trends.
  • Prospecting skills (cold calling, email, social): You know how to leverage modern sales engagement tools to deliver prospect engagement across multiple channels (phone, email, LinkedIn)
  • Communication: You can articulate your thoughts and express ideas effectively using verbal, written and non-verbal communication skills (to inform, instruct, and persuade), to different audiences. You listen effectively and love to partner and collaborate with your peers
  • Growth Mindset: You’re self-aware and understand both your strengths and weaknesses. You understand every day is an opportunity to be 1% better than the day before. You proactively seek feedback.
  • Results Oriented: You bring a never settle approach to quota, progression and team development. Results oriented BDRs are hungry to succeed and raise the bar.
Responsibilities
  • Strategic Account Targeting: Partner with Enterprise Account Executives to build and prioritize highly strategic target account lists. This includes deep dives into firmographics, technographics, and intent data to identify top opportunities.
  • Expert Enterprise Prospecting: Generate new business pipeline through expert cold calling, highly personalized email, and targeted LinkedIn social selling. You'll consistently attract new, large-scale customers by crafting hyper-personalized messaging for C-level executives, orchestrating multi-threaded outreach campaigns, and leveraging sales intelligence tools to uncover critical insights and pain points.
  • Exceptional Prospect Experience: Deliver an outstanding and tailored experience for prospective enterprise customers, acting as the initial point of contact and ensuring a high-value introduction to our solutions. You'll articulate Fin's value as a trusted advisor.
  • Product & Market Acumen: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of Fin's product suite and its value proposition.
  • Cross-Functional Optimization: Collaborate with Marketing, Sales Operations, and Product to improve business processes that directly impact enterprise pipeline generation and conversion, providing valuable field feedback.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree preferred
  • Familiarity with these systems and tools: (SFDC, Outreach, Cognism, Zoominfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator)

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…