AI Deployment Manager, Gorgias
Enterprise
€71-79k
+ equity
The conversational AI platform for eCommerce
Be an early applicant
The conversational AI platform for eCommerce
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€71-79k
+ equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower eCommerce brands to grow through AI-powered customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3–5+ years in SaaS as an implementation manager or similar post-sales role, driving adoption and activation with a demonstrated track record of independently delivering complex implementations. Ecommerce experience is a strong plus
- Consultancy and Project Management: 3–5+ years crafting and overseeing project timelines tailored to enhance activation among merchants, encompassing strategic recommendations and actionable suggestions. Comfortable managing 25-30 accounts simultaneously with a high degree of autonomy
- Communication Skills: Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and executive presence. You build compelling narratives that resonate at the CEO and CFO level - translating complex data and AI outcomes into clear business impact, overcoming objections before they become roadblocks, and turning skeptics into champions. You adapt your message and materials to any audience
- Technical Curiosity: You understand how ecommerce platforms and integrations work, you're comfortable exploring how to build or troubleshoot integrations, and you default to resourcefulness over escalation. Familiarity with Shopify and common ecommerce tech stacks is a strong plus
- AI & Automation Mindset: Passionate about technology, automation, and the future of AI in customer support. Comfortable configuring AI Agent, discussing automation strategy with merchants, and learning new AI capabilities quickly. Proactively uses tools like Claude to improve your own efficiency
- Adaptability and Learning Agility: Thrives in an evolving onboarding process, demonstrating adaptability to change, quick learning, and the ability to keep up with new product developments and process changes
- Relationship Building: Passionate about building and maintaining relationships, with a focus on driving engagement, product adoption, and mitigating churn
- Passion for Learning: Demonstrated passion for continuous learning and personal growth. You stay current on Gorgias product developments and ecommerce trends, and you actively contribute to team knowledge
What the job involves
- The AI Deployment (Customer Implementation) Team at Gorgias is dedicated to ensuring a seamless and successful start for every customer's journey with our products. Our primary objective is to elevate the onboarding experience by delivering a white-glove service and expert guidance to our customers
- This involves cultivating a heightened proficiency in product knowledge, engaging in consultative conversations, and adopting a strategic implementation approach that extends beyond mere activation. Our mission is to empower companies to launch swiftly and effectively on Gorgias, showcasing the exceptional value of our flagship products: Helpdesk and AI Agent
- Our team plays a pivotal role in the overall success of our products, influencing customer adoption, usage, and retention. As AI becomes central to how merchants support their customers, we're at the forefront of helping businesses unlock automation, configure AI Agent, and drive measurable outcomes from day one. By fostering meaningful connections with our customers, we contribute to the sustained growth and satisfaction of businesses leveraging Gorgias solutions
- As the AI Deployment Manager, your role is to manage the entire onboarding process for your book of business, beginning to end - from sales handover through configuration, training, and activation. As the first point of contact, this role is instrumental in managing all aspects of customer relations post-sales stage
- You will actively contribute to our mission of providing a white-glove onboarding experience, showcasing the value of our flagship products, Helpdesk and AI Agent. The perfect fit for this role is an adept professional with a consultative mindset and a strategic approach to onboarding
- Conduct in-depth discovery and implementation sessions for your book of business, tailoring the experience to drive adoption and usage of our Helpdesk and AI Agent products
- Build on behalf of the customer, utilizing a consultative approach to customize solutions that align with their specific needs and goals
- Design and drive AI Agent adoption roadmaps for each customer, sequencing automation rollout to support change management and prove value at each stage
- Drive the activation ratio and reduce time to value through a white-glove experience, providing expert guidance on both Helpdesk and AI Agent configuration
- Establish trust with customers by demonstrating expert knowledge of our products, sharing best practices, and communicating the business impact of AI adoption in clear, compelling terms
- Act as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams, ensuring seamless communication and cross-functional accountability throughout the onboarding process
- Manage integrations with the customer's ecommerce tech stack; explore feasibility of custom integration paths and troubleshoot proactively using available technical resources and AI tools
- Drive project timelines through clear milestone setting and workback schedules, ensuring effective project management throughout the implementation
- Analyze and interpret e-commerce customer data to build compelling, executive-ready narratives - translating support metrics and AI Agent outcomes into business impact framed around revenue, efficiency, and risk, so that CEOs and CFOs become champions, not blockers
- Document customer interactions, configurations, and learnings meticulously - contributing insights that improve future implementations and team best practices
- Proactively identify and mitigate roadblocks to decrease time to value, and coach L1/L2 peers by sharing patterns, playbooks, and implementation learnings
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate discovery synthesis, solution design, and documentation
Our take
With the surge in online shopping, eCommerce merchants are increasingly prioritizing customer communications to enhance the overall shopping experience. This heightened emphasis puts greater pressure on support teams to promptly and accurately address customer inquiries.
Gorgias offers an all-encompassing customer support helpdesk equipped with artificial intelligence tools tailored for customer service teams. The platform allows eCommerce businesses to streamline responses to frequently asked questions through a single application. By automating these responses, support agents can allocate more time to engaging in meaningful and profitable interactions with customers, thereby potentially driving sales.
Catering to over 15,000 brands, including prominent brands like Princess Polly, Steve Madden, and Marine Layer, Gorgias faces competition from established players like Zendesk, Freshdesk, and HelpScout. Despite this, the company has experienced notable growth, expanding its presence across the US, Europe, and Australia. Along with funding that will fuel the development of its Automation Add-on feature, aimed at providing customers with instant answers to alleviate support workload.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$29m
SERIES C
Aug 2022
$30m
SERIES C
Total funding: $101.4m
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alex Plugaru
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Web Developer at Gymglish, Eau de Web, Innobyte and Liquid Studios.
Romain Lapeyre
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Product Manager at Work4 and Business Developer at Scalr. MA in Management from HEC Paris.
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