Front is the leading AI-powered customer service platform built for collaboration. Front brings core support channels into a modern, intuitive workspace where teams can collaborate on requests, automate manual processes, and delight customers across their entire lifecycle. Front’s flexible workflows, AI features, and customer intelligence provide the efficiency and insights to keep entire organizations customer-first, every day. More than 9,000 of the most innovative companies worldwide including CultureAmp, HootSuite, and Y Combinator use Front to deliver five-star service at scale.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M from leading venture capital firms and independent investors including top executives at Atlassian, Okta, Qualtrics, Zoom, and PagerDuty. Front has received numerous Great Place to Work accolades, including Built In's 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in SF 2025, Top Places to Work by USA Today 2025, Y Combinator's list of Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ ,Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces list, and Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List.

Front is transforming how teams communicate with customers — and great design is central to that mission. You’ll join a high-trust design org with strong executive support, global cross-functional partners, and a culture that values quality, curiosity, and care. As a Senior Design Manager at Front, you’ll lead a group of talented product designers based in San Francisco and oversee key product surfaces: Core Product Experience, Chat, Knowledge Base, and Design Systems.

You’ll be responsible for raising the bar of design craft and coaching your team to deliver intuitive, polished, and scalable user experiences. This is a highly cross-functional role: you’ll work closely with PMs, engineers, and leaders not just in SF, but across our Paris and LatAm hubs. You’ll play a central role in connecting the dots between product surfaces and geographies — helping your team make better, more informed decisions.

What you'll do

• Manage and grow a high-performing SF-based design team — supporting their craft, career development, and impact

• Oversee design for our Core Product, Chat, Knowledge Base, and Design Systems pods — while partnering closely with global peers to align across the product

• Partner with PMs and engineers to shape product strategy, roadmap direction, and ensure successful execution

• Set a high bar for visual, interaction, and systems design — and guide your team in meeting it

• Give clear, actionable feedback that sharpens the work and elevates outcomes

• Foster a culture of collaboration, design excellence, and fast, iterative problem-solving

• Help scale our design org — from improving hiring and onboarding to evolving our design reviews, systems, and rituals

• Advocate for users and design quality in product and org-level decisions

You have...

• 7+ years of product design experience, with 3+ years managing designers (including senior ICs)

• Experience shipping B2B or technical products with high expectations for UX and visual polish

• A strong product sense — you can help shape the “what,” not just the “how”

• A sharp eye for craft and systems, and a clear POV on what makes great design

• Experience giving principled, actionable feedback that grows designers and improves outcomes

• Confidence navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across multiple teams

• A collaborative leadership style — you’re excited to partner with peers in Paris, LatAm, and across time zones to deliver cohesive product experiences

• Comfort managing distributed design teams and influencing work beyond your direct reports

Exceptional candidates will...

• Have experience overseeing multiple workstreams or product surfaces

• Show examples of how their leadership improved both team performance and product quality

• Have worked at a company with high design standards and strong cross-functional alignment

• Bring a passion for building systems, elevating taste, and scaling design culture across borders

• Have a portfolio of exceptional visual and interaction design, created by their teams under their guidance

Application Requirement

Please include a link to your portfolio or team work samples that demonstrate the quality of design your teams have delivered under your leadership.

This is a hybrid role, expected to be in our SF office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)

• Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible time off policy

• Focus Fridays - learn more here!

• Flexibility to work from home 3 days/week (unless posted as a full-remote role)

• Mental health support with Workplace Options

• Family planning support with Maven

• $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities

• Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays

• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!

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