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About the Role
As an Events Manager on Figma's experiential Marketing team, you'll help shape the next chapter of Config, Figma's flagship user conference. You'll own key areas of Config's experiential strategy and bring deep production expertise to create memorable experiences that connect and inspire Figma's community. This role partners closely with teams across Brand, Field Marketing, Partnerships, and more to turn ambitious ideas into experiences that can scale globally. This is a high-impact role for someone who can set strategic direction while staying close to execution, all while bringing together creative vision, operational rigor, and cross-functional leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own the experiential strategy and end-to-end delivery of key areas of Config, translating company, audience, and program objectives into compelling in-person experiences
- Establish scalable operating models, frameworks, and production standards that enable consistent, high-quality execution across global and regional Config programs
- Bring a strong experiential point of view, identifying opportunities to evolve the attendee experience for Config
- Demonstrates ability to lead complex, cross-functional workstreams, building alignment across internal stakeholders from strategy through execution
- Partner closely with Figma's Brand Studio to translate Figma's brand and creative vision into IRL environments and experiential moments
- Oversee program budgets and timelines, balancing creative ambitions with business and operational needs
- Evolve the Config experience: help define what the next generation of Config looks and feels like, identifying new experiential concepts and opportunities that push the boundaries of what a user conference can be
- Define success metrics and use audience and business insights to evaluate impact, identify opportunities, and inform future experiential strategy
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in experiential marketing, event production, or related disciplines, with experience leading large-scale programs
- Proven experience owning experiential strategy and production for large-scale user conferences or flagship events
- Strong operations and program management skills - you know how to build frameworks that scale
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across functions, including Marketing, Partnerships, Brand, Creative, and external agency partners
- Operates effectively and efficiently amid shifting priorities and rapid change
- Experience using Figma (added plus)
- Must keep cameras on during video interviews
- Required to attend in person onboarding if hired
Skills
- Experiential marketing
- Event production
- Program management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Brand strategy
- Creative vision
- Operational rigor
- Figma (preferred)
Location
- US hubs
- Remote in the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000—$269,000 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
- Exempt employees eligible for employer-provided 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 our 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.
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
- 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.