Senior Forward Deployed Data Scientist

intercom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intercom is seeking a Forward Deployed Data Scientist to embed with strategic customers and drive enterprise-grade AI deployments. You will work with our RAD team to translate data insights into measurable outcomes and influence product strategy.

The role requires strong data science skills, production-grade Python, and a willingness to travel and work on-site with customers to build deep relationships and deliver impactful AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to apply data science in real-world business contexts to drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong collaboration mindset; skilled at working across Sales, Success, Product, and Engineering.
• High adaptability and ownership: able to shift between deep technical analysis and high-level strategic framing.
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Rapid prototyping with systems thinking: you know when a customer needs a fast, bespoke answer, and when to build something others will keep using.
• Excellent SQL and production-aware Python, you write code other people can run, not just code that runs once and are experienced applying analytical and statistical methods to real business problems.
• Experience with AI/ML evaluation, LLM-driven applications, or conversational AI.
• Willing to travel and work on-site with customers to build deep relationships and uncover insights firsthand.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of Fin by helping customers automate and scale their support operations.
• Embed with strategic customers to understand their support workflows, data, and business challenges - to identify and implement opportunities where AI can deliver measurable impact.
• Steer customers toward best practices in measurement and AI adoption to realize the full value of Fin.
• Partner closely with Sales, Success, and Product to deliver seamless customer experiences and successful deployments, and to create feedback loops that shape product development.
• Use AI to prototype, test, and scale data-driven solutions, building tools that make us faster and more effective in driving Fin adoption and customer impact.

Skills

Data science

SQL

Python

AI/ML

LLM

Stakeholder collaboration

Prototyping

Production code

Tools

Git

Cloud

Job description

Fin , now part of Salesforce, is on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey, from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk, giving modern support teams one single system.

Together with Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success, we're building the future of customer experience. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword, it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing, and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI.

Ready to level up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place. Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

What's the opportunity?

The Research, Analytics & Data Science (RAD) team at Intercom uses data and insights to drive evidence-based decision-making. We're a team of data scientists and product researchers who use data - both big and small - to unlock actionable insights about our customers, our products and our business. We generate insights that build customer empathy, drive product strategy and shape products that deliver real value to our customers.

We're now seeing strong demand for data scientists who can apply their expertise directly with our most strategic customers. As a Forward Deployed Data Scientist, you'll embed with customers to build Enterprise-grade Fin deployments. You'll play a pivotal role in transforming how our most strategic customers scale customer support - working closely with them and our go-to-market teams to design, build, and implement data-driven solutions that unlock measurable impact. You'll also feed insights from these frontline deployments back into Intercom's product and strategy - helping shape the future of AI customer service.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in ambiguous environments, is energized by solving complex, real-world problems with data, and is motivated by seeing their work translate into both customer impact and product evolution.

What will I be doing?

• Drive the adoption of Fin by helping customers automate and scale their support operations.
• Embed with strategic customers to understand their support workflows, data, and business challenges - to identify and implement opportunities where AI can deliver measurable impact.
• Steer customers toward best practices in measurement and AI adoption to realize the full value of Fin.
• Partner closely with Sales, Success, and Product to deliver seamless customer experiences and successful deployments, and to create feedback loops that shape product development.
• Use AI to prototype, test, and scale data-driven solutions, building tools that make us faster and more effective in driving Fin adoption and customer impact.

What skills do I need?

• Proven ability to apply data science in real-world business contexts to drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong collaboration mindset; skilled at working across Sales, Success, Product, and Engineering.
• High adaptability and ownership: able to shift between deep technical analysis and high-level strategic framing.
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Rapid prototyping with systems thinking: you know when a customer needs a fast, bespoke answer, and when to build something others will keep using.
• Excellent SQL and production-aware Python, you write code other people can run, not just code that runs once and are experienced applying analytical and statistical methods to real business problems.
• Experience with AI/ML evaluation, LLM-driven applications, or conversational AI.
• Willing to travel and work on-site with customers to build deep relationships and uncover insights firsthand.

Bonus skills and attributes

• Experience in technical consulting, customer-facing analytics, or SaaS product data science.