Designer Advocate, Partnerships

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!

Were looking for a Designer Advocate to partner closely with our Marketing Sales and Product teams. Youll bring deep design expertise strong product intuition and a genuine love for the design community into our go-to-market strategies. Youll also champion our users voices internally ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.

This role is based out of our San Francisco hub.

What youll do at Figma:

• Build evolve and deliver certification programs and scalable enablement programs for Figmas service distribution partners to help them successfully adopt position and leverage Figma best practices
• Cultivate trusted relationships with strategic service distribution and tech partners collaborating closely to identify opportunities share best practices and drive mutual success
• Develop written visual and video content that showcases modern product development workflows demonstrates Figmas integrations and ecosystem and equips partners to educate and inspire their customers
• Represent Figma at partner events workshops conferences and customer engagements highlighting real-world workflows integrations and success stories that accelerate adoption
• Gather insights from users and partners including feedback on workflows integrations and emerging trends

Wed love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate deep hands-on expertise in Figma with experience embedding the platform within product teams and taking ideas from early exploration through to polished high-impact outcomes
• Apply a strong understanding of modern product design workflows and development environments including building managing and leveraging design systems design tokens and AI-assisted design or prototyping while partnering closely with engineers and cross-functional teams
• Communicate complex design workflows and systems with clarity and confidence delivering compelling presentations and effectively engaging audiences of all sizes
• Translate technical design decisions into practical development outcomes ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering teams
• Champion the design community by actively building relationships contributing to industry conversations and representing the organization through travel of up to 25% as needed

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. If you require accommodation please reach out to . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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