The Intercom Customer Success Manager

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A customer success manager or support lead at a B2B SaaS company who uses Intercom as their primary customer communication layer. They handle inbound support conversations, run proactive outreach campaigns to at-risk accounts, and manage the onboarding message sequences that new users see. They know which customers are about to churn before anyone else does because they read the conversation history. They are the person who knows more about the product's real failure points than anyone in engineering.

• →Resolve support conversations fast enough that response time isn't a churn driver
• →Surface at-risk accounts before the renewal conversation is already lost
• →Build message flows that educate users at the right moment without feeling like spam

• —Conversations that require context across email, Intercom, and Slack to understand
• —Automated messages that fire at the wrong moment because the trigger logic is approximate
• —The gap between what Intercom knows about a user and what the CS rep needs to know
• —before opening a conversation
• —Resolution metrics that measure speed but not quality

• A customer who reaches support has already experienced a failure — the job is to
• recover the relationship, not close the ticket
• Proactive outreach at the right moment is service; at the wrong moment it's noise
• The customers who don't reach out are often the ones closest to leaving

Manages a team of 2–4 support reps using Intercom. Uses Intercom for inbound support, proactive campaigns, onboarding sequences, and product announcements. Has Intercom connected to Salesforce, Segment, and their internal product database. Uses the AI Copilot feature to draft responses. Has built 6–12 automated message sequences. Reviews conversation quality weekly. Reports on CSAT, first response time, and resolution time. Has a saved list of at-risk accounts they check every Monday that was built manually because the native health score isn't trusted.

• →Conversation merging that works across channels removes the multiple-ticket-same-issue problem
• →A customer health score built from real product usage data replaces the manual
• →at-risk list with something that surfaces automatically
• →Trigger logic that accounts for user behavior state (not just time elapsed) makes
• →automated messages feel contextual rather than algorithmic
• →Rep context panel that shows the full customer record — product usage, past conversations,
• →account value — before they open a reply removes the tab-switching research phase

Pairs with `angry-customer` behavioral persona for de-escalation training and support quality scenarios. Contrast with `salesforce-primary-user` for the customer success vs. sales CRM ownership debate. Use with `greenhouse-primary-user` for companies where CS team growth requires hiring pipeline integration.