Intercom is the AI Customer Service company on a mission to help businesses provide incredible customer experiences.
Our AI agent Fin, the most advanced customer service AI agent on the market, lets businesses deliver always-on, impeccable customer service and ultimately transform their customer experiences for the better. Fin can also be combined with our Helpdesk to become a complete solution called the Intercom Customer Service Suite, which provides AI enhanced support for the more complex or high touch queries that require a human agent.
Founded in 2011 and trusted by nearly 30,000 global businesses, Intercom is setting the new standard for customer service. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and consistently deliver incredible value to our customers.

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE

• Leading and growing high-performing design teams in product-first companies.
• Hiring, coaching, and developing designers at all levels — from IC to senior leads.
• Owning execution across a portfolio of product areas and driving design excellence through every detail.
• Partnering deeply with Product and Engineering leadership to align on priorities, make tradeoffs, and move fast.
• Thriving in ambiguous, fast-changing environments — and turning chaos into clarity.
• A track record of shipping great software, not just making decks about it.
• Strong visual sensibility, high standards for craft, and an eye for detail.
• Demonstrated product taste — you know what great looks like, and you can help teams get there.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

This year, we’re doubling down on craft, execution, and design leadership. In a world where it’s easier and easier to get software off the ground and to 75% built, it’s the last 25% that really matters. We’re tearing up old playbooks. Shipping faster. Going deeper on detail. And raising the bar on everything we put in front of a customer.
We’re hiring a Group Design Manager to lead a high-performing design team that’s building the future of AI Customer Support. This is not a maintenance role. It’s a build-and-scale role. Our goal is nothing less than breakout success in the major new category of AI Agents for Customer Support. You’ll partner directly with your product and engineering counterparts to define and ship what’s next — not what’s already been done before.
We need leaders—people who will raise the quality bar, bring a spark of creativity, drive best-in-class interaction and visual design, and push execution excellence across our most strategic product areas. This is not a strategy or people-management only role. We need a maker, a doer, a leader. Somebody who loves to partner with designers and is able to jump into Figma, Loveable, Cursor etc.. as and when needed.

WHO THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR

• People who need certainty, full specs, or clear org charts to get started.
• Leaders who lean back and wait for direction, rather than leaning in and making things happen.
• Those who are satisfied with “good enough” — this is a role for someone who sees the extra 10% that makes a product unforgettable.
• Anyone wedded to structures and systems that worked five years ago. We’re rewriting how software gets built — and you’ll help define what the next 10 years look like.

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead, coach, and inspire a team of designers working across multiple product surfaces.
• Partner with your Group PM and Group EM counterparts to lead a product group — aligning strategy, driving decisions, and unblocking delivery.
• Set and uphold an extremely high bar for craft — from UX flow to pixels to polish.
• Solve problems from first principles, not templates.
• Help your team make hard decisions, move fast, and focus on outcomes over process.
• Be a design quality amplifier — noticing the details others miss, and pushing the work to where it needs to be.
• Build a healthy, high-trust team culture grounded in feedback, growth, and ownership.
• Stay hands-on in the work — reviewing designs, jumping into critiques, and driving clarity.