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Others handle simple interactions. Front handles the coordination and context behind complex B2B customer relationships. Over 9,000 companies, including Uber Freight, Navan, and Stripe, rely on Front because it's the only one that can run the operational layer that makes customer-facing work actually succeed.\nBacked 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 accolades, including a Certified Great Place to Work in 2026, 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.\nAI is transforming customer service at a pace the industry hasn’t seen before. Front is at the leading edge of that shift, with more than 9,000 companies worldwide, including CultureAmp, Hootsuite, and Y Combinator, already running their support operations on it.\nYour role\nAs Front’s first Design Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on senior IC with high leverage across Product, Design, and Engineering. You’ll combine strong frontend engineering judgment, excellent UI craft, and deep design-systems expertise to personally design, build, and ship improvements across our mature product and codebase.\nYour role will center on three areas:\n1. Optimize our design system for humans and agents\nLead the design system’s future architecture across design, documentation, and production code by defining its source-of-truth model, contribution workflows, and the tools that best support them (current tools include Figma and Storybook).\n\nBuild, refactor, and maintain a living system of reusable, accessible, well-documented components and guidance that both people and AI agents can reliably discover, use, and contribute to.\n\nBuild automations and guardrails that keep design, documentation, and code aligned, surface drift, and reduce manual maintenance.\n\nUse AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate implementation, migration, and system maintenance while applying strong judgment to the output.\n\n2. Raise Front’s product UI bar\nWork hands-on across design and frontend code to improve interaction patterns, micro-animations, component states, accessibility, consistency, polish, and delightful finishing details across the product.\n\nPersonally design and implement reusable components and reference patterns that make high-quality UI easier to ship.\n\nPartner cross-functionally with Product and Design to align on the best UI solutions that serve user needs.\n\n3. Enable and educate designers and engineers\nEstablish clear conventions, contribution paths, and practical guidance that build shared fluency in design systems and UI implementation.\n\nTeach and support teams through documentation, pairing, reviews, workshops, and shared best practices so designers and engineers can contribute with greater autonomy and confidence.\n\nMake the right path easier through better defaults, tooling, and guardrails rather than becoming a bottleneck or relying on centralized approval.\n\nWhat skills & experience do you need?\n6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, or similarly mature product environments.\n\nStrong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture. You do not need to have used Front’s exact stack, but you should be able to ramp quickly in a large, mature codebase.\n\nHigh UI craft and strong product taste. You can evaluate whether an interface is visually polished, consistent, accessible, responsive, and maintainable.\n\nDeep experience architecting, building, or maintaining design systems across design and code (components, tokens, documentation, governance, accessibility, contribution models), ideally with hands-on experience applying these systems to AI agents and agent-assisted workflows.\n\nExperience choosing and implementing design-engineering tooling and automation-for example, visual regression, design-token pipelines, component documentation, code-to-design connections, linting, or CI checks.\n\nStrong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, keyboard interaction models, focus management, and inclusive component states.\n\nStrong communication and teaching skills. You can explain technical and design-system decisions clearly, help others build shared fluency, and influence adoption through practical guidance.\n\nA portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact: production UI, component systems, interaction details, prototypes, documentation, automation, or code-backed product work.\n\nExperience using AI-assisted coding or design tools to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and product iteration.\n\nBonus points\nExperience working on products with a large existing frontend surface area, multiple product teams, and a mature or evolving design system.\n\nExperience in customer support, customer operations, collaboration software, internal tools, developer tools, or other workflow-heavy SaaS products.\n\nWhat you’ll bring to Front\nSenior-level judgment: you can operate through ambiguity, prioritize high-leverage improvements, and sequence change in a way that teams can actually adopt.\n\nA builder’s bias: you prefer to make ideas real in code, learn from how they behave, and iterate quickly.\n\nA high craft bar: you care about the last 10% of interaction detail, visual polish, accessibility, and usability.\n\nA systems mindset: you see patterns, edge cases, and long-term maintenance costs, not just individual screens.\n\nA collaborative approach: you raise the quality of work around you by making the right path easier for other designers and engineers\n\nFront operates on a hybrid model - we come together in the office each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to collaborate and stay connected.\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive salary\n\nEquity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)\n\nPrivate health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nFlexible time off policy\n\nFlexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role\n\nMental health support with Workplace Options\n\nFamily planning support with Maven\n\n$100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities\n\nWellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays\n\nWinter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!\n\nFront 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. 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