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About the Role
Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Growth Platform team, shaping its vision and focusing on communications capabilities. This role involves enabling 10x more growth experiments and owning the shared notification platform, empowering teams to experiment faster and deliver personalized communications.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the team: Hire the initial engineers for the Growth Platform’s first team.
- Set the team’s culture, operating rhythm, and engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers, create career growth opportunities, and help scale the organization as scope expands.
- Build capabilities that unlock new experiments, such as personalized messaging, self-service publishing, and cross-system integrations.
- Leverage AI for brand consistency checks, visual quality validation, copy generation, and experiment governance.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding architecture decisions and reviewing system designs.
- Partner with Marketing, growth teams, and product teams to align on messaging and platform needs.
- Shape the platform vision and define the roadmap based on adoption, impact, and learnings.
Requirements
- 3+ years in engineering management, with a strong track record of building and shipping application platforms.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience at the application or product tier.
- Experience driving outsized impact from small changes and enabling such wins at 10x scale.
- Demonstrate strategic insight to optimize impact for both longer and short term.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, delivering continuous value while building toward a longer-term platform vision.
- Track record of prioritizing by impact, leveraging existing assets to accelerate, and scaling through platform-level thinking.
- Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, product, design, and data.
- Must keep cameras on during video interviews.
- Required to attend in person onboarding if hired.
Skills
- Application platforms
- Growth experiments
- Communications capabilities
- Notification platform
- Personalized messaging
- Self-service publishing
- Cross-system integrations
- AI integration
- Brand consistency checks
- Visual quality validation
- Copy generation
- Experiment governance
- Architecture decisions
- System design
- Build-vs-integrate choices
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Platform vision
- Personalization systems
- Recommendation engines
- ML-driven content selection
- Customer data platforms
- Marketing automation systems
- User attribute services
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Localization (l10n) infrastructure
Location
- US hubs
- Remotely in the United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years in engineering management
- 7+ years of software 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
- 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.
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.