--- title: 'Agent Strategy Manager at Decagon' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/agent-strategy-manager-decagon-toronto-56t57bayemfy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Agent Strategy Manager at Decagon - **Company:** [Decagon](https://feeny.ai/companies/decagon) - **Location:** Toronto, Canada - **Compensation:** $135k–$185k - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-07-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/decagon/d50361fe-a78a-4ff5-93ad-753e7bd0a800 ## Job description ## About Decagon 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. ## About the Team Decagon’s Agent Strategy team is a high impact group that shapes how customers use and gain value from our product. You will work alongside a sharp and collaborative team of ASMs who build best practices, guide customers through high value deployments and bring customer insight into product strategy. Together the team defines how we deliver value to enterprise customers and continues to evolve as the company scales. ## About the Role As a member of Decagon’s Agent Strategy team you will partner closely with customers to guide deployments, support adoption and ensure they have the tools and insight they need to achieve meaningful outcomes. You will work cross functionally with Product and Engineering to surface customer needs, solve challenges and help shape how our technology performs in real world environments. This role blends relationship management with hands on execution and is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast paced setting and wants to have a direct impact at a high growth company. In this role, you will - Play a key role in shaping the Agent Strategy function and laying the groundwork for how it operates at Decagon - Build meaningful and long-lasting partnerships with our customers, and act as your customers' strategic advisor - Co-pilot with your customers throughout their deployment journey, from early stages of project scoping all the way to full adoption and value realization - Continuously learn and upskill your expertise in our product features and functionality, as well as wider AI industry context to become an expert in best practices - Expertly communicate with customer stakeholders, from individual contributors all the way to C-level executives - Identify and support new projects and initiatives to best support our team and customers - Collaborate with Agent Product & Engineering teams to identify technical improvement opportunities and influence the product roadmap based on customer needs ## Your background looks something like this - 4+ years of customer facing experience in a technical and customer facing role in B2B SaaS (e.g. Technical Account Manager) - Proven experience managing large customers and driving highly visible projects involving multiple stakeholders - Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for non-technical audiences - Strong interpersonal, persuasion and teamwork skills - Business understanding of GTM sales teams and processes - Strong technical acumen and passion for the overall agent building process (ability to code not required or needed) Even better if you have - Are familiar with Agentic AI tool deployments in large organizations - Have working knowledge of Customer Support processes, systems, and best practices - Have experience in a high-growth startup environment - Have a bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or similar fields ## Compensation $160K-$220K OTE + equity ## Benefits We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees: - 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 - Monthly stipend to support your wellness, lifestyle, and work-life balance - Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best - Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave) These benefits are described in more detail in Decagon’s policies, may vary by location, and can change at any time according to applicable compensation and benefits plans. ## About Decagon ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Decagon is an AI customer support platform that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous AI agents for concierge-level customer experiences across voice, chat, email, and other channels. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $481M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Jesse Zhang (CEO) and Ashwin Sreenivas (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer support software / Enterprise conversational AI - **Target customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise (e.g., Avis Budget Group, Chime, Oura Health, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Hunter Douglas, Duolingo, Curology, Valon) - **Mission or purpose**: "Build a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships." ## Products & Services - **[Decagon AI Concierge Platform](https://decagon.ai/)**: Unified omnichannel AI agent handling chat, voice, and email — powered by natural-language Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs) for workflow definition and an analytics suite for continuous optimization. - **[Decagon Voice AI](https://decagon.ai/product/voice)**: Fast, intelligent voice agents built for natural dialog, fully customizable to brand tone, claiming 50%+ deflection on voice and 70% chat+voice resolution. - **[Decagon Chat](https://decagon.ai/product/chat)**: Flexible, personalized chat agent that executes complex workflows reliably, claiming 80% deflection rate and 32% cost reduction. - **[Decagon Email](https://decagon.ai/product/email)**: Always-on, intuitive email agent that resolves issues quickly, reporting 1M+ revenue from fully AI-handled conversations and 3x CSAT increase. - **[Duet Autopilot](https://decagon.ai/)**: Newer product tier (announced 2025) for autonomous, end-to-end handling of customer interactions. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: ~$4.5B (Series B round led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, tripling valuation in under six months as of late 2025/early 2026) [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026) - **Total Funding**: USD $481,000,000 across 7 rounds [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai) - Seed (Jun 2024): $5M led by a16z - Series B (Oct 2024): $65M led by Bain Capital Ventures - Venture Round (Nov 2025): undisclosed amount, 1 investor - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue Management, Index Ventures, Elad Gil [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026) - **Growth Signals**: - 311 employees (+325.3% YoY) as of mid-2026 - 100+ enterprise customers - Over 60,000 LinkedIn followers (+274.8% yearly growth) - Active in 7 countries (US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Philippines, Nigeria) - 134 active job postings (+332.3% yearly growth) - Key talent sourced from Verkada, Scale AI, Bain & Company, Glean, Databricks, xAI, Salesforce, TikTok, Five9 ## Competitive Advantages - **Proven enterprise adoption**: Deployed at major brands (Chime, Avis, Oura, Duolingo) with highly publicized results — e.g., Oura reported 95% chat+voice resolution, Curology 80% deflection, and one customer saw "10x higher deflection at launch than anticipated" [decagon.ai](https://decagon.ai/) - **Omnichannel by design**: Unified chat, voice, and email on a single intelligence layer — a rare end-to-end approach vs. point solutions for just chat or voice. - **Natural-language AOPs**: Agent Operating Procedures in plain English, enabling non-engineers to define and iterate on agent workflows without engineering support — faster iteration and less vendor lock-in. - **Elite investor syndicate**: Backed by the top enterprise AI investors (a16z, Accel, Coatue, Index, Bain Capital Ventures), signaling strong confidence and access to a broad network. - **Founding team pedigree**: Founded by former executives/engineers from high-growth AI companies (Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas have backgrounds from fast-scaling AI startups). ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling enterprise sales**: Actively hiring Enterprise Account Executives, Implementation Managers, and Strategic Account Directors [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai) - **Deepening voice capabilities**: Staff Research Engineer and Senior Research Engineer for Voice + Speech roles signal heavy investment in voice AI quality and differentiation [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai) - **International expansion**: Established offices in London (UK), plus presence in Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, and Philippines — recruiting across all regions. - **Product velocity**: Emphasis on rapid iteration and continuous improvement of agents; building out analytics suite (Decagon Insights) and Duet Autopilot for fully autonomous operation. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as "Eng-Driven, Ship Fast, Equity, Product Impact" by employees. Values include: "Just get it done," "Invent what customers want," "Winner's mindset," "The Polymath Principle" (cross-functional collaboration) [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers) - **Compensation**: "We hire the best and treat them accordingly" — competitive compensation philosophy; Glassdoor rating: 3.9/5.0 (257 reviews), Compensation: 5.0/5.0 in Glassdoor-style internal review [jobsbyculture.com](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026) - **Benefits**: - 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for dependents - 401k and FSA/commuter benefits - Flexible PTO + company-wide winter break shutdown - Free daily lunches, dinner, and snacks at HQ - Wellness programs and company events [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers) - **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: HQ in San Francisco (2261 Market Street); London office (50 York Way). Roles span remote, hybrid, and on-site options based on job postings. - **Engineering culture**: 89 technical employees (21% of workforce), Staff/Senior Research Engineer roles for Voice + Speech; "Build, optimize, and scale AI agents" is core identity. Alumni go on to OpenAI, Datadog, Postman, Accel — strong talent pipeline. - **Growth trajectory**: 134 open roles; 300+% headcount growth YoY; $4.5B valuation at 3 years old — extremely high-growth environment ideal for career acceleration. - **Notable perk**: "We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions" — employees report high product impact and ownership. ## Sources 1. [decagon.ai](https://decagon.ai/) 2. [decagon.ai/careers](https://decagon.ai/careers) 3. [LinkedIn - Decagon](https://www.linkedin.com/company/decagon-ai) 4. [jobsbyculture.com - Working at Decagon 2026](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-decagon-2026) 5. 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