[Hiring] Business Operations @Figma

Role Description

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!

The Business Operations team is focused on solving some of Figma's most challenging business issues. We are a small team that works collaboratively across Engineering, Product, Go-to-Market, and Operations teams on a variety of strategic initiatives with a direct and quantifiable impact on our business. You will be asked to tackle a variety of unstructured problems, dissect them, synthesize a set of actionable insights and partner in the execution & implementation of the solution. The role requires someone who is highly analytical and strategic, a great communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity. You'll get substantial senior leadership exposure, focus on the highest-priority business issues and be plugged into every facet of the business.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Identify, evaluate and prioritize new product initiatives, go-to-market strategies and operational projects, with an eye toward long term value creation.
• Partner with key stakeholders across product, marketing, people, sales, and customer experience to understand, scope and implement operational improvements or perform analysis to inform strategic decision-making.
• Drive execution of approved recommendations, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable results.
• Develop executive-ready analyses, business cases, and recommendations by synthesizing quantitative data, customer insights, and market trends to influence strategic decision-making.
• Establish success metrics and monitor key business performance indicators, using data to evaluate initiative impact, identify opportunities for optimization, and inform future investment decisions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, corporate planning, business finance, analytics, or related fields.
• Demonstrated ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and develop concrete action plans.
• Strong analytical expertise, and extensive experience building integrated models from scratch.
• Experience building relationships and communicating with stakeholders across all levels and functions.
• Track record of building processes from scratch & methodically resolving potential road-blocks.

Requirements

• While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have experience at a high growth B2B SaaS company.
• Experience partnering with Product & GTM teams.
• Experience with SQL.

Benefits

• Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including 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, including paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable laws.
• Employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave.
• Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts.
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.

Company Description

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. 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 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 [email protected].