Agent Development Manager

Decagon is hiring an Agent Development Manager in New York, United States. It pays $150k-$220k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Decagon.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions AI agents among its tools and skills.
Decagon has 133 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

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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 Role

As part of Decagon’s Agent Development Team, you will build and scale the function that develops world-class AI Agents for our customers. You will own the strategy and execution for deploying Decagon across complex enterprise environments, ensuring every agent build is smooth, impactful, and sets the foundation for long-term customer success.

You will design and own the agent development playbook, creating the frameworks, processes, and standards that make agent builds repeatable and scalable as we grow. You will continuously improve how we deliver by leveraging AI tools, automation, and strong operational design to increase efficiency and reduce time to value.

You will partner closely with customer teams to understand their workflows and goals, and work cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering to translate those needs into successful agent builds. You will guide complex rollouts, align stakeholders, and ensure every launch delivers measurable impact.

In this role, you will

Lead AI agent builds from zero to one, driving execution, adoption, and business outcomes.
Design agent development strategies tailored to each customer’s goals and technical environment.
Improve speed, quality, and consistency across agent builds by identifying bottlenecks and introducing better systems, tooling, and automation.
Lead with assertion, be data-driven, and help build the world's highest-performing team for developing AI agents.

Your background looks something like this

4+ years in customer-facing technical roles like implementations or solutions consulting, or in consulting, finance, product, or project management.
Experience leading complex software or AI deployments with measurable results.
Technical fluency with SaaS platforms, integrations, and APIs.
Strong operational instincts with experience building scalable processes or playbooks.
Clear communicator who can work effectively with both executives and operators.
Highly organized and comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Low ego and team-first. Your success is the team's success.

Even better if you have

Familiarity with enterprise systems such as Zendesk or Salesforce.
Experience building a new function or operating model from the ground up.
Power user of AI tools who uses them to transform workflows, increase leverage, and drive meaningful efficiency gains.

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.

How we rate this

Agent Development Manager at Decagon rates 75 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Agent Development Manager is an open job at Decagon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $150k-$220k a year.
The role is based in New York City.
The job was posted on January 22, 2026.
Applications are handled by Decagon. Apply on Decagon

Prepare for this job

Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agents

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How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?

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List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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