Customer Success Manager

About this role

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals, or resumes from external recruiters or staffing agencies.
Location: Remote (U.S. based). This role supports Frontline customers in every market we serve and requires availability for rotating shifts, including overnights, weekends, and holidays. Candidates located in PST or MST time zones are preferred.
Background Check Requirement
As part of our hiring process, Frontline Wildfire Defense conducts comprehensive background checks for all new hires. These checks typically cover the past 7–10 years and may include employment and education verification. For roles that require work in the field, driving record verification is also required. Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of these background checks.
About Frontline Wildfire Defense

Founded in 2017, Frontline developed the first fully integrated wildfire defense system to stop the leading cause of home loss in wildfires: ember-driven ignition. The system combines exterior sprinklers, full-coverage design, and connected software for remote monitoring and response, allowing homes to protect themselves long after families evacuate or infrastructure fails.
Proven effective during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, 96% of homes with Frontline systems survived. That success has earned top industry recognition, including Frontline being recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 in the Green Tech category and receiving the PCBC Gold Nugget Award for “Most Innovative Housing Concept” and the Best of IBS Award for “Best Home Technology.”
As wildfires grow hotter and more frequent, our vision is to give people the tools and strategies to live safely with fire. We’re building a mission-driven team creating real-world solutions in wildfire safety and climate tech.
About This Opportunity
As Customer Success Manager, you will build and lead the team that stands behind every Frontline customer, from the day their system is installed through every fire season after. You will own Frontline’s customer support function and lead our Wildfire Response Specialists, the team that helps homeowners and commercial customers make sure their systems are ready, running, and doing their job when a wildfire is approaching.
Every Frontline system is designed to protect a property even after its owners have evacuated. Our fire-tracking software alerts customers when a wildfire comes within ten miles and starts an automatic activation countdown. Each system has a connected controller with Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite connectivity and a backup battery. When it activates, eave sprayers and roof rotors wet the home and up to 30 feet around it with water and Class A foam. When fire is close, customers need fast, calm, accurate help, and you will be responsible for making sure they get it at any hour.
This is a founding, hands-on leadership role. You will hire and coach the team, design the coverage model and on-call rotation, build the playbooks and escalation paths the team runs on, and lead the team through active fire events. You will work closely with Solutions Engineering, Installation Operations, Field Service, and Product so that customer issues get resolved quickly and turn into lasting product and process improvements.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development

• Hire, onboard, and lead Frontline’s Wildfire Response Specialists, and grow the team as our customer base and coverage hours expand.

• Coach the team on system troubleshooting, crisis communication, de-escalation, and documentation, and run regular 1:1s, call reviews, and performance management.

• Build a culture of calm, ownership, and genuine care for customers, and protect the team from burnout through fair scheduling, post-event debriefs, and access to support resources.

• Serve as a hands-on leader: take escalated calls, step into coverage gaps, and share the after-hours on-call rotation with the team

24/7 Response Operations

• Design and run the team’s coverage model, including shift schedules, an after-hours on-call rotation, and surge staffing plans for Red Flag Warnings and active fires.

• Lead the team during active fire events: decide outreach priorities, assign customers to specialists, track system status across affected properties, and keep leadership informed in real time.

• Own the escalation matrix that connects the team to on-call engineering, field service, and leadership, and make sure it works at 2am as well as it does at 2pm.

• Train and maintain a bench of cross-trained employees who can support the team during large or multiple simultaneous fire events.

• Manage schedules, timekeeping, overtime, and labor costs for an hourly team in compliance with federal and state wage and hour rules, including meal and rest breaks.

Customer Support & Customer Experience

• Own the end-to-end customer support experience across phone, text, email, and app messages for homeowners and commercial customers.

• Define and track SLAs and key metrics, including response time, resolution time, first-contact resolution, escalation rate, and customer satisfaction, and report them to leadership on a regular cadence.

• Serve as the final escalation point for complex, sensitive, or unresolved customer issues.

• Build proactive programs that keep customers ready: new-owner onboarding (app setup, contacts, and alerts), pre-fire-season readiness check-ins, and outreach during Red Flag Warnings.

• Lead post-fire recovery: make sure every affected customer is contacted and that foam and water refills, inspections, and repairs are scheduled with Field Service.

Systems, Process & Documentation

• Build and maintain the team’s infrastructure, including the ticketing system, phone routing for 24/7 coverage, response playbooks, call scripts, SOPs, and knowledge base.

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define the tools the team needs, such as visibility into which customers are…