Decagon's Agent Development Team

DECAGON, LLC
United States
2 days ago
Apply on startup.jobs
Prepare application

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Software as a Service Salesforce.Com Systems Integration Enterprise Software Applications Deployment Automation Data Analytics Virtual Agents Zendesk

Job description

As part of Decagon’s Agent Development Team, you will build and scale the function that develops world-class AI Agents for our customers. You will own the strategy and execution for deploying Decagon across complex enterprise environments, ensuring every agent build is smooth, impactful, and sets the foundation for long-term customer success.

You will design and own the agent development playbook, creating the frameworks, processes, and standards that make agent builds repeatable and scalable as we grow. You will continuously improve how we deliver by leveraging AI tools, automation, and strong operational design to increase efficiency and reduce time to value.

You will partner closely with customer teams to understand their workflows and goals, and work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering to translate those needs into successful agent builds. You will guide complex rollouts, align stakeholders, and ensure every launch delivers measurable impact.

In this role, you will

  • Lead AI agent builds from zero to one, driving execution, adoption, and business outcomes.
  • Design agent development strategies tailored to each customer’s goals and technical environment.
  • Improve speed, quality, and consistency across agent builds by identifying bottlenecks and introducing better systems, tooling, and automation.
  • Lead with assertion, be data-driven, and help build the world’s highest-performing team for developing AI agents.

Requirements

  • 4+ years in customer-facing technical roles like implementations or solutions consulting, or in consulting, finance, product, or project management.
  • Experience leading complex software or AI deployments with measurable results.
  • Technical fluency with SaaS platforms, integrations, and APIs.
  • Strong operational instincts with experience building scalable processes or playbooks.
  • Clear communicator who can work effectively with both executives and operators.
  • Highly organized and comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
  • Low ego and team-first. Your success is the team’s success.

Even better if you have

  • Familiarity with enterprise systems such as Zendesk or Salesforce.
  • Experience building a new function or operating model from the ground up.
  • Power user of AI tools who uses them to transform workflows, increase leverage, and drive meaningful efficiency gains.

Benefits & conditions

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

  • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
  • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
  • Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
  • Parental Leave
  • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

About the company

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.

Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.

We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.

We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values - Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle - shape how we work and grow as a team.

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on startup.jobs
Prepare application

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:32 min

Structuring platforms for new services and data analytics

Nevelina Aleksandrova · LIVE

3:45 min

Fusing developer experience and platform engineering for agentic SDLC

Julia Kordick Julia Kordick · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:10 min

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric and data agents

Dr. Alexander Wachtel Dr. Alexander Wachtel +1 · World Congress 2025

1:56 min

Scaling AI adoption to non-traditional enterprise developers

Neel Sundaresan Neel Sundaresan +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:06 min

Developer experience and project variety at scale

Alexandra Petri · World Congress 2023

2:44 min

Integrating data analytics into the talent acquisition function

Kobi Kobi +1 · World Congress 2025

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all