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Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager at Fin (Salesforce) works directly with strategic customers to deploy AI-powered customer support solutions, shaping deployments, gathering feedback, and influencing product direction. High-ownership, hands-on role with strong customer and technical focus.
- Own outcomes for a portfolio of strategic customers deploying Fin
- Understand customer business, support operations, and technical environments
- Pitch and demo Fin, scope solutions, and configure deployments
- Unblock deployment obstacles including product gaps and technical integrations
- Act as the AI expert for customers
- Partner with Sales, Success, and R&D for seamless deployments
- Feed field learnings back into product development
- Develop deployment playbooks, templates, and best practices
Key requirements
Must-have
- Customer obsession with deep empathy and bias for action
- Strong communication and storytelling skills for both executives and engineers
- Technical fluency with APIs, SaaS infrastructure, LLMs, and low-code tooling
- Evidence-based thinking and data-driven decision making
- Ability to navigate organizational boundaries and influence cross-functionally
Role signals
- Technical focus
- product management with technical fluency
- Hands-on vs management
- Hands-on
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Full 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?
In AI, proximity to customer reality is the moat. Even the best model doesn't run itself: it takes someone who gets close enough to a customer's business to make it work, and that closeness doesn't happen on its own.
That's where the Forward Deployed Product Manager comes in. You'll work directly with our biggest customers at the moments that matter most in their journey with Fin, whether that's proving out value in an evaluation, getting a deployment live, or expanding what's possible once it's working, and get them to real, measurable success with Fin faster than they'd get there on their own. What you learn with them feeds back into the product, so every customer after them gets there faster and better too.
This is a very novel role in the industry, still being shaped, and you'll help sharpen what great looks like at Fin: evolving the playbooks, and shaping how we win and deliver on our biggest, highest-stakes deals.
This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role for a PM who wants real time with customers and hands-on time with the product, and who's comfortable making progress before every answer is known.
What will I be doing?
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Own outcomes for a portfolio of strategic customers deploying Fin. Understand their business, their support operation, and their technical environment well enough that the deployment plan you propose earns trust immediately.
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Run the full arc yourself. Pitch and demo Fin, scope the solution, hands-on configure it (including custom development if required), and unblock whatever gets in the way, whether that's a product gap, a technical integration, or a cross-functional snag.
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Be the AI expert in the room. Customers should leave every conversation with you knowing more about how to get outstanding results from Fin.
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Partner tightly with Sales, Success, and R&D so each deployment feels like one team to the customer, not a relay race.
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Turn what you learn in the field into product. Bring specific, evidence-backed input, not just feature requests, to shape the roadmap.
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Build the playbook as you go: the deployment patterns, templates, and best practices that make the next ten deployments faster than the first.
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Help define what Forward Deployed PM means at Fin. It's a very novel role across the industry, still being shaped, and you'll help sharpen what it looks like here.
Success in this role looks like your customers thriving with Fin, and the product getting sharper because of what you learned from them. It's product management at its core, not solutions engineering, customer success, or professional services.
What skills do I need?
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**Experience: **No minimum years required. We care about impact, drive, and potential, evidenced through the skills below, not tenure.
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**Customer obsession: **Deep empathy paired with a bias for action. You're motivated by solving the real problem and delivering measurable results.
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**Communication & storytelling: **You can pitch Fin to a room of executives, then get into the technical weeds with their engineers, adjusting depth and tone without losing either audience.
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**Technical fluency: **You're able to talk to engineers and customers about modern tech stack, from APIs and SaaS infrastructure to LLMs and low-code tooling. You're comfortable onboarding a customer into more technical product setups.
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**Evidence-based thinking: **You use data, not anecdotes, to make the case for a deployment plan or a roadmap bet, and you're comfortable pulling and interpreting data (conversation logs, usage, CX metrics) to find the story.
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**Cross-functional influence: **You navigate organizational boundaries easily, and bring people together to get the best outcome for customers and Fin.
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**Comfort with ambiguity: **You thrive in fast-changing, undefined environments, switching fluidly between big-picture strategy and in-the-weeds execution.
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**Operational rigor: **Operational rigor: You're highly organized and structured, managing multiple deployments and priorities without becoming reactive, and you know when a moment calls for speed versus polish.
Even better if you have:
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Experience building product for enterprise customers
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Startup or B2B SaaS experience
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Background in technical consulting, solutions engineering, or customer success
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Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
In the United States, compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, job level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and benefits. At Fin, we want to give people what they need to do the best work of their careers. Our benefits and programs are designed to support your health and wellbeing, your family, your time away from work, and your financial future. Offerings vary by location in line with local practices and requirements. Learn more about working at Fin and the benefits we offer at fin.ai/careers. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
**Policies **
Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.
We have a radically open and accepting culture at Fin. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.
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Interview prep pack
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Your interview focus
Based on this listing, the Senior Forward Deployed Product Manager role at Fin (part of Salesforce) is a high-ownership, customer-facing position focused on deploying AI-powered customer support solutions, driving measurable outcomes, and feeding field insights back into product development.
- Customer Obsession·High
- Technical Fluency·High
- Cross-Functional Influence·High
- Evidence-Based Thinking·High
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Your 30-minute plan
Research Fin, Intercom, and Salesforce AI Offerings
0–8 minStudy the capabilities, integration points, and customer value propositions of Fin, Intercom, and Salesforce's AI solutions.
Review Technical Concepts: APIs, LLMs, SaaS, Low-Code Tools
8–15 minRefresh your understanding of relevant technical concepts and prepare examples of hands-on experience.
Prepare Customer-Facing Success Stories
15–22 minSelect and structure 2-3 stories where you drove customer outcomes, handled technical deployments, and influenced product direction.
Map Cross-Functional Collaboration Examples
22–26 minIdentify situations where you partnered with Sales, Success, and R&D to deliver seamless solutions.
Draft Role-Specific Questions
26–30 minPrepare thoughtful questions about the role's scope, challenges, and success metrics to ask during the interview.
Talking points
, 5 itemsDriving Customer Success with AI Deployments
You will need to demonstrate how you have owned outcomes for strategic customers, ensuring successful adoption and measurable results with complex technology.
Technical Solution Scoping and Configuration
The role requires hands-on configuration, technical integration, and potentially custom development, so be ready to discuss your experience with APIs, SaaS, LLMs, and low-code tools.
Communicating Across Stakeholders
You must be able to pitch to executives and dive deep with engineers, so prepare examples of tailoring your communication to different audiences.
Evidence-Based Product Management
The company values data-driven decision making; be prepared to discuss how you have used data and customer insights to influence product direction.
Building and Iterating Playbooks
You will help develop and refine deployment best practices, so examples of creating or improving processes will be relevant.
What to research
, 4 itemsFin AI Agent Product Capabilities
Research Fin's AI customer agent, its integration with Intercom and Salesforce, and its differentiators in the market.
Modern SaaS and AI Deployment Patterns
Review best practices for deploying SaaS and AI solutions, especially those involving LLMs, APIs, and low-code tools.
Customer Success Metrics in AI Deployments
Understand how customer success is measured in AI-powered support solutions, including relevant KPIs and feedback loops.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Models
Study effective ways to partner with Sales, Success, and R&D to deliver unified customer experiences.
Questions to ask
, 6 itemsHow does the Forward Deployed Product Manager role at Fin differ from traditional product management or solutions engineering?
Why ask this? Clarifies the unique expectations and boundaries of this novel role.
What are the most common challenges customers face when deploying Fin, and how does the team support overcoming them?
Why ask this? Gains insight into real-world deployment obstacles and support structures.
How are field learnings and customer feedback typically incorporated into the product roadmap?
Why ask this? Assesses the feedback loop and your potential influence on product direction.
What does success look like for this role in the first 6-12 months?
Why ask this? Clarifies performance expectations and key milestones.
How does the team collaborate with Salesforce and Intercom, given the integration and shared customer base?
Why ask this? Explores cross-company collaboration and integration challenges.
What support and resources are available for developing new deployment playbooks and best practices?
Why ask this? Understands the tools and support for process improvement.
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