Full-Time

Senior Manager, Account Management

Updated on 8/12/2026

Front

Front

501-1,000 employees

CRM with team messaging and workflows

Compensation Overview

$280k - $310k/yr

+ Equity + $100 monthly lifestyle stipend

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

Three days on-site per week required; work from home is available Monday and Friday.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • 4-6 years of experience leading Account Management, Sales, or Renewals teams in software as a service.
  • Proven experience developing and leading Account Management functions, including building an Account Management function from the ground up.
  • Experience leading a team focused on Account Management motions, including enterprise-level renewal negotiation, upselling, cross-selling, and handling customer escalations.
  • Strong coaching and people leadership skills, including developing talent, delivering feedback, and creating a culture of accountability and growth.
  • Ability to think strategically while executing hands-on work such as building processes and running customer calls.
  • Ability to use metrics and customer insights to guide decisions, identify trends, and demonstrate impact.
  • Experience partnering with Sales, Product, and Customer Success teams to drive shared outcomes.
Responsibilities
  • Help develop the future structure of the Existing Business team as Account Teams are introduced, pairing Account Managers with Customer Success Managers.
  • Lead a high-performing Account Management team by developing and coaching Account Managers focused on customer outcomes and business growth.
  • Coach Account Managers to map their account books, identify opportunities, and develop customer-expansion strategies.
  • Partner with the Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Customer Success to define team key performance indicators, roles and responsibilities, success metrics, and operating rhythms.
  • Work closely with Sales, Finance, Legal, and Revenue Operations to ensure seamless customer experiences.
  • Own renewal, expansion, customer satisfaction, and commercial success across the team.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with support or customer-experience platforms.
  • Familiarity with usage-based or product-led growth models.
  • Experience working with mid-market and enterprise customers.

Front is a multi-channel customer communication platform that serves as a centralized hub for teams to manage customer relationships. It provides CRM-like tools to organize messages from various channels, enables team collaboration, and offers workflow automation and analytics through a subscription-based software suite. The product works by consolidating customer inquiries into a shared inbox, letting teams assign, track, and respond to messages with context, while automations route and flag important items and dashboards track performance. It differentiates itself from competitors by emphasizing human-like, timely responses within a collaborative, scalable environment suitable for professional services, financial services, B2B tech, manufacturing, and travel. The company's goal is to help businesses improve customer experience, speed up responses, increase revenue, and retain customers by making customer communication more efficient and personal.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$203.4M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Front surpassed $100 million ARR in September 2025, proving enterprise traction.
  • March 2026 TSD deals position Front for faster mid-market and enterprise pipeline generation.
  • More than 9,000 customers and 130-plus integrations create strong switching costs.

What critics are saying

  • Intercom, Zendesk, and HubSpot bundle similar AI support features and crush pricing.
  • Channel expansion through distributors adds dependence on partners that also sell competing CX stacks.
  • If AI agents replace shared-inbox workflows, Front loses its core seat-based model.

What makes Front unique

  • Front owns the shared inbox plus workflow layer for complex B2B customer operations.
  • March 18, 2026 partnerships with Intelisys, Sandler Partners, Telarus widen distribution fast.
  • Idiomatic acquisition and Autopilot, Copilot, Smart CSAT, Smart QA deepen AI differentiation.

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Benefits

Competitive compensation - We offer compensation that matches the top talent we hire

Healthcare - We take care of your premiums for medical, dental, and vision

Flexible PTO - Take time to recharge so you can bring your best self to work

401(K) - Invest in your future by saving for retirement

Parental leave - Paid time off for birthing and non-birthing parents alike

Volunteer time off - Take time to give back to our communities

Commuter benefits - Flexible options to make getting to work a little easier

Wellness benefits - We help you prioritize your physical and mental wellness

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

3%
Business Wire
Mar 18th, 2026
Front partners with four distributors to expand B2B customer operations platform reach

Front, a customer operations platform for B2B companies, has partnered with technology services distributors Intelisys, Sandler Partners and Telarus to expand its channel ecosystem. The agreements connect Front with thousands of technology advisors serving mid-market and enterprise clients. The platform combines collaboration, automation and AI to manage complex, multi-team customer operations involving multiple systems and stakeholders. Front's tools include shared inboxes, workflow automation, AI-powered autopilot and copilot features, quality assurance tools and over 130 integrations. The partnerships enable advisors to integrate Front alongside UCaaS, CCaaS and AI automation offerings. Front recently appointed Mike Kane as SVP of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships to drive channel growth. Over 9,000 companies, including Uber Freight, Navan and Stripe, currently use the platform.

CMSWire
Mar 18th, 2026
Front expands channel ecosystem with key Partners to support B2B customer operations.

Front expands channel ecosystem with key Partners to support B2B customer operations. March 18, 2026 New TSD partnerships extend Front's reach to thousands of advisors guiding enterprise organizations through high-stakes digital transformation San Francisco, CA - March 18, 2026 - Front, the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, today announced new partnerships with Intelisys, Sandler Partners, and Telarus. The agreements expand Front's distribution across the technology services distributor (TSD) ecosystem, connecting the company with thousands of technology advisors who influence mid-market and enterprise customer experience buying decisions. While much of the CX market has focused on high-volume ticket deflection, Front has spent the past decade building for the operational reality of B2B: multi-team, multi-system, multi-step work where context matters and handoffs carry real consequences. The company brings collaboration, automation, and AI together in one platform designed to keep every team, tool, and customer conversation aligned. Technology advisors increasingly lead conversations around UCaaS, CCaaS, cloud infrastructure, and AI automation. Front complements those investments by serving as the orchestration layer that brings coordination and shared visibility into customer-facing workflows, particularly when the work becomes complex. "Front represents the next evolution of customer engagement where collaboration, automation, and AI come together to drive measurable business outcomes," said Sam Nelson, VP of CX and AI, Telarus. "At Telarus, we're focused on helping advisors bring platforms to market that simplify the agent experience while elevating the customer journey. Front's momentum in the CX space reflects the growing demand for modern, AI-enabled engagement solutions, and we're excited to support their continued expansion." Through these partnerships, advisors can introduce Front as a differentiated CX revenue stream and attach it to broader UCaaS, CCaaS, and AI automation initiatives. "For over a decade, Front has focused on solving the coordination and context challenges that define complex B2B customer operations," said Mike Kane, SVP of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships, Front. "These partnerships allow us to bring that advantage to thousands of advisors whose clients are navigating high-stakes transformation initiatives. We're committed to equipping the advisor community with a platform built for that reality." Front's inclusion in these leading TSD portfolios gives advisors access to a platform purpose-built for complex B2B customer environments, including: * Collaborative shared inboxes and an omnichannel workspace for cross-functional teams * Ticketing and workflow automation built for complex, multi-stakeholder customer work * Autopilot and Copilot to automate routine tasks while keeping humans in control * Smart QA and Smart CSAT to measure quality and satisfaction across conversations and channels * 130+ integrations that pull CRM and system context directly into customer conversations "We're pleased to welcome Front as a new solution provider in our AI ecosystem," said Ben Edwards, Director of CX and AI, Sandler Partners. "Their focus on service channel automation with conversational AI, virtual agents across chat, voice, and email aligns with how organizations are modernizing customer engagement. Their solutions and generative AI tools bring innovation that improves efficiency while preserving the human experience." This announcement comes closely on the heels of Front's strategic hire of Mike Kane as SVP of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships to accelerate channel growth. The company will continue investing in partner training, joint marketing programs, and ecosystem expansion throughout 2026. About Front Front is the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, keeping every team, tool, and customer conversation in sync so companies can scale without losing connection. 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 platform that can run the operational layer that makes customer-facing work actually succeed. Featured Research

Channel Impact
Jan 4th, 2026
Front Appoints Mike Kane as SVP of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships

Front appoints Mike Kane as SVP of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships. Front, a San Francisco company that offers an AI-powered customer operations platform, has appointment of Mike Kane as its Senior Vice President of Global Channel Sales & Partnerships. Kane joins from Dialpad, where he played a key role in building the company's global channel organization. At Front, Kane will lead the company's next phase of growth through partnerships with a focus on expanding its network of technology services distributors (TSDs), resellers, and ecosystem partners. "We're entering a pivotal year for Front," said Dan O'Connell, CEO of Front. "Our partner ecosystem will play a huge role in our next chapter, and Mike brings the leadership, experience, and energy to make that happen. He's built trusted relationships across the channel community and knows how to unlock mutual growth." During his time at Dialpad, Kane designed and executed the company's global partner strategy, developing new TSD relationships and growing partner-led revenue. "Front is one of the most exciting companies in customer experience right now," said Kane. "The opportunity to bring Front's product and its philosophy of better, more human customer operations to the channel is huge." In the past 12 months, Front claims more $50K+ deals than any year in company history, expanded its offices in Santiago, evolved from a single product into a true multi-SKU omnichannel platform and introduced Autopilot, Copilot, and new AI add-ons. The company plans to significantly grow its partner-led business in 2026 as it scales past $100M ARR, with a focus on strategic collaboration, enablement, and shared customer success. Channel Impact(R) Kane is expected to expand Front's global partner ecosystem and drive new revenue through TSD relationships. The move reflects Front's investment in making partnerships a core growth driver as demand for unified customer communication and collaboration continues to rise. Keep tabs on what's happening in the channel and the impact it will have on the partner community by subscribing to Channel Impact communications.

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Front's Topics, Agent Put AI-Powered Automation Front and Center

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