Manager, Software Engineering Interaction Design

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether youre 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 youre excited to shape the future of design and collaboration join us!

The Interaction Design team is responsible for creating and maintaining the runtime APIs that support rich high fidelity interactions and animations across our product suite. Our teams work is critical to ensuring products like Prototyping Slides and Smart Animate have the platform needed to empower customers to bring their designs to life in new and exciting ways. The team is also responsible for building new interaction and animation-based this role youll lead the team that enables engineers at Figma to easily develop the next generation of interactive Figma features and products.

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

What youll do at Figma:

• Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to improve the platform features and runtimes supporting interactive and animated experiences in Figma products like Prototyping and Slides
• Hire manage support and develop a team of engineers including staff level engineers
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy priorities and mission for teams and projects
• Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of solving some of the most complex technical challenges at Figma
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community
• Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring community events and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma

Wed love to hear from you if you have:

• 2 years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
• 5 years of engineering experience working on complex systems with an emphasis on performance reliability quality and extensibility
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal product and development teams to build systems that solve their needs

While its not required its an added plus if you also have:

• Experience building performant animation and interaction frameworks tooling and foundations
• Deep knowledge of runtime environments and how they operate including game application or browser engines
• Experience with creative coding frameworks used for building interaction animation and time-based media experiences

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 youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.

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.

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• Holding interviews in an accessible location
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• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

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