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About the Role
The UX Platform team aims to improve workflows in the Figma Ecosystem, focusing on the user experience at the boundary of different features and products. Our goal is to make distinct features within the design editor feel more connected so that both new and experienced users can move as quickly as possible through their creative process. The team tackles complex core product and platform challenges with real revenue implications, shaping Figma’s product experiences across teams and impacting how millions of people design and build together every day. We build thoughtful, extensible UI patterns that help our product suite feel more familiar and intuitive. Given the reach of the features and experiences we build, we have an exceptionally high bar for product quality and craftsmanship. Most recently, the team has been focused on improving Agent-driven workflows in the design editor.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support a team of experienced engineers to build new features that better connect Figma’s multi-product ecosystem
- Champion a strong engineering culture rooted in inclusivity, velocity, and technical excellence
- Partner with product, design and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
- Work closely with cross-functional partners and other engineering teams to build and support a culture of doing great work together for our engineering team by investing in team culture, mentorship, and meaningful work
- Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community
Requirements
- 2+ years of engineering management experience and leading a high output engineering team
- 6+ years of frontend or fullstack engineering experience
- Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers
- Experience building product roadmaps with product, design, and data-science partners
- Proven success balancing technical quality work alongside feature development
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross-functional settings
- Success working in highly complex and ambiguous product spaces
- Experience shipping cross-product features and tools at high velocity
- Strong collaboration experience across engineering teams and organizations
Location
- US hubs
- Remotely in the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- 6+ years of frontend or fullstack engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- $258,000—$376,000 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
- 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!
- At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 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.