[Hiring] Design Manager @Figma

Role Description

We're looking for a Design Manager to lead Figma's internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure as the company transforms and expands. This is a rare opportunity to become the steward of the system behind how Figma designs and builds Figma:

• Foundations, tokens and variables
• Component libraries
• Tooling
• Governance
• Shared infrastructure

The work will shape every Figma product and, through them, the experience of millions of people.

This is a senior people leadership role with meaningful scope. You'll lead designers across multiple Design work streams, set direction through a complex transformation, and partner deeply with Design, Product, and Engineering to turn strong foundations into greater quality, speed, and leverage across Figma.

If you believe the best systems create coherence without limiting the autonomy teams need to do exceptional work, this is the role for you.

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

Qualifications

• 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams
• 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
• Direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
• Experience evolving an internal design system at scale
• Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership
• Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows

Requirements

• Experience leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
• Ability to bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work
• Experience evolving the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
• Ability to hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team
• Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions

Benefits

• Equity to employees
• 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 and holidays
• Flexible paid sick leave for exempt employees
• 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

Annual Base Salary Range: $204,000 — $348,000 USD

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 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.