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Engineering Manager - Core Product Experiences

Front

Front

Software Engineering, Other Engineering, Product
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Posted on Nov 22, 2024

Front is the modern customer service platform that helps companies delight their customers, engage their teams, and build stronger businesses. We’ve reimagined the help desk for real-time team collaboration across every customer communication channel, then powered it up with AI and automation to resolve issues and help teams work faster. Customers get exceptional service whether they’re looking for a simple, instant answer, or personalized help on their most complex issues — and you get the analytics and insights your business needs to optimize your customer experience. Over 8,500 businesses of all shapes and sizes, from ClickUp to Branch Insurance, Echo Global Logistics to Reed & Mackay rely on Front to deliver game-changing service that wins and retains customers for life.


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 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, Forbes Best Startup Employers 2022 List, and Best workplaces for Millennials 2022 list.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Core Product Experiences team, working in Santiago, Chile. The Core Product Team at Front owns the heart of the application: our familiar-feeling but super-charged inbox where customers can triage and route incoming conversations, chat with their teammates to solve complex inquiries, and craft high quality replies. In this role you will manage the existing team of talented engineers to deliver on an ambitious roadmap, guide the team through technical decisions, scale this team by attracting and hiring talented engineers and obsess about making the team and their processes scale efficiently. This is also a very collaborative role where you will interface with other engineering managers and teams in other locations.

What will you be doing?

  • Drive and deliver on our product roadmap, working with your team to turn 1-pager specs into features

  • Grow your teams by coaching developing engineers and by attracting and hiring top talent

  • Obsess about the architectural design, implementation and quality of the work your team produces

  • Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design to innovate and execute product initiatives across the company

  • Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Front’s engineering management team

What skills and experience do you need?

  • A customer- and product-driven mindset; the ability to make a complex application feel simple and intuitive for the end user

  • Engineering management experience that includes effectively recruiting, mentoring, and retaining great people

  • Strong track record of running teams that deliver projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity

  • The ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego and high-growth environment; you work well with all kinds of personalities and with teams across multiple geographies

  • Clear, structured thinking and excellent communication skills

  • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism

Bonus:

  • Experience working in NodeJS or React

  • Strong design sense

  • Experience building tools in the customer support space

Front provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the California Recruiting Privacy Notice & EU Privacy Notice