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About the Role

Figma is seeking a Design Manager to lead the company's internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure during a period of transformation and expansion. This role is crucial for stewarding the foundational elements, tokens, variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and shared infrastructure that ensure quality and coherence across all Figma products, impacting millions of users. It's a senior people leadership position with significant scope, responsible for leading designers, setting direction, and collaborating with Design, Product, and Engineering to enhance quality, speed, and leverage.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite

Requirements

4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational change
Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows
Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and code
Creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption
A track record of building shared platform or infrastructure services that other teams depend on
Leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization
Must keep cameras on during video interviews
Required to attend in-person onboarding if hired

Skills

Figma expertise
Design Systems
Design Infrastructure
AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
Coded component systems
Design libraries
Design-to-code workflows
Token pipelines
System architecture
Platform services
Infrastructure services

Location

US hubs
Remotely in the United States

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$204,000—$348,000 USD

Benefits

Equity
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement benefits with company contributions
Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
Mental health and wellness benefits
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Holidays
Paid flexible PTO
Company recharge days
Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
Lifestyle spending accounts
Sales incentive compensation (for most sales roles)
Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles)

About the Company

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

Equal Opportunity

Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: Holding interviews in an accessible location, Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing, Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers, Changing the mode or format of interviews.