Engineering Manager - Frontend
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment type
Full-time
Function
Engineering
Compensation
$250k - $325k • Equity • Benefits
About us
We've been working at the forefront of generative AI to automate the hard parts of designing and sharing beautiful presentations, websites, social media posts, and more.
📈 With over 50 million users, we're one of the top AI consumer apps, growing through word of mouth
👨👩👧👦 We're a team of 35 - we're lean and we ship constantly!
(Read our tiny team's big story in NYT)
(Read our tiny team's big story in NYT)
💰 We're profitable - and we've also raised $20M+, with Seed + Series A led by Accel
🌁 We're based in San Francisco - most of us are in office ~3 days a week
⚡ We're AI pioneers - we're early players in the space and we're constantly redefining what it means to build with and for AI
About the role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our frontend team as we shape the future of AI-powered content creation. This leader will balance technical vision with people management, helping us maintain our rapid pace of innovation while supporting the growth of our engineering talent.
At Gamma, our frontend experience is the heart of how users interact with our platform. You'll play a critical role in leading a team of 10+ frontend engineers, driving technical excellence, and scaling our collaborative web application to serve millions of users.
This position is an onsite role in San Francisco with a hybrid flexible work culture. You'll be expected to come in to our Potrero Hill office 3 days per week with a schedule that works best for you.
What you'll do:
- Lead and mentor a diverse team of 10+ frontend engineers, actively supporting individual growth, professional development, and team cohesion.
- Guide senior engineers in making strategic technical decisions about architecture, scalability, maintainability, and performance, establishing a culture of technical excellence while balancing long-term technical investments with immediate product needs.
- Provide clear, consistent direction to maintain alignment, focus, and clarity within the frontend engineering team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Drive frontend hiring and onboarding processes, closely collaborating with recruiting, engineering management, and company leadership to build an outstanding team.
- Actively partner with product, design, and backend teams to ensure cohesive, innovative feature delivery, and contribute strategically to cross-functional planning and roadmap development.
- Create a productive and supportive environment, proactively identifying and removing obstacles to empower engineers to perform their best work.
You'll lead a vibrant team with engineers who bring unique strengths—from rapid feature delivery and internationalization to meticulous UI interaction design and creative problem-solving.
Our ideal candidate has:
- Strong engineering & technical foundation: 5+ years of frontend engineering experience with deep proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern web development, combined with hands-on coding abilities and eagerness to adopt emerging technologies.
- Experienced people leader & mentor: 8+ years of proven success managing, mentoring, and developing diverse engineering teams, adept at nurturing growth, performance, and team cohesion.
- Exceptional communicator & stakeholder partner: Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to clearly translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and effectively facilitate collaboration across teams and levels.
- Team alignment & effective decision maker: Strong skills in aligning team priorities to broader organizational objectives, facilitating effective decision-making, and proactively resolving conflicts to maintain a productive, harmonious team environment.
- Proven product execution & delivery: Demonstrated track record of successfully shipping high-quality, complex web applications under tight timelines, thriving in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
- Strategic technical vision & passion for Gamma’s mission: Experienced in driving strategic technical and architectural decisions for scalable frontend systems, paired with a genuine passion for collaborative workflows and AI-powered tools, aligned with Gamma’s innovative product mission.
You combine deep frontend engineering expertise with proven leadership in managing and developing high-performing teams. You’re an excellent communicator, skilled at bridging technical and non-technical perspectives, aligning team goals with organizational priorities. You value execution, consistently delivering high-quality products. Beyond all this, you're genuinely passionate about Gamma’s mission—creating innovative, AI-powered, collaborative user experiences
Bonus points for:
- Experience with ProseMirror or other document editor frameworks
- Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and their integration into user experiences
- Experience working with localization tooling
- Experience scaling frontend applications to millions of users
- Background in building real-time collaborative tools or applications
- Experience working with CRDTs and WebSockets for real-time data synchronization
- Open source contributions or involvement in technical communities
- Experience managing distributed teams or working with remote engineers
Compensation & benefits:
The base annual salary range for this role is $250-$325k.
- Competitive compensation package including equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance for you and your benefits
- Unlimited PTO and flexible hours — we encourage everyone to take time off as needed!
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.
If you're interested about this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people and we care about more than the bullet points on your resume.
Our stack
While this role is frontend focused, your team will inevitably be working across the entire product. Fortunately, we're building a full Typescript stack centered around some of the most modern and popular technologies:
AI
- Language Models: Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Gemini 1.5, GPT-4o,
- Image Models: Flux, Imagen, Ideogram and many more.
- Observability: Datadog
- Prompting: AIJSX
- Evals: Braintrust
AI scale @ Gamma
700,000
AI generated presentations daily
5 million
AI images generated daily
20 million
tokens per minute on average of LLM usage
Meet the team
We're a team of dreamers and doers building in beautiful San Francisco 🌉
We're kabbadi enthusiasts, pickleballers, dog herders, woodworkers, keyboard nerds, potters, and more — and we can't wait to meet you!
