Technical Program Manager, AI Performance

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!

Figma seeks an AI-Native Performance TPM to own performance prevention diagnostics and safe rollout for both our flagship products and next-gen AI features. This platform-level role spans desktop browser and mobile; requires deep experience with performance testing (load stress endurance interference) observability and incident response. Youll partner across Product Platform Performance Program and Product Support. Join us to keep Figma snappy quick!

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:

• This is a specialist Platform TPM owning horizontal high-visibility performance programs that span:
• Flagship product performance (load times FPS memory) and AI features (model inference latency throughput cost and reliability)
• Desktop browser native mobile (React Native / WebView) and WASM contexts
• Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry regression prevention (performance CI) xfn performance forum SEV mitigation safe rollout of AI capabilities and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)

Wed love to hear from you if you have:

• 5 years in performance engineering performance TPM platform TPM or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products
• Demonstrated experience with load stress performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
• Deep familiarity with web performance (FCP LCP) rendering/FPS WASM memory mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments Android Profiler)
• CI/CD and test automation experience: integrating performance tests into pipelines
• Distributed systems cloud infra (AWS) autoscaling and capacity planning
• Hands-on prior work with LLMs prompt engineering or agent platforms

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

• Experience with MLops or LLMs: inference latency tradeoffs batching caching etc
• Observability stack: Datadog / Sentry / RUM
• Background as a performance engineer (not just TPM) with code or test harness contributions.
• Experience with large enterprise Planning / customer load tests.
• Familiarity with real-time collaborative systems and GPU/WASM performance constraints.

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