Manager, Software Engineering Growth Platform
Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
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!
You will be the first engineering manager for the Growth Platform and youll help shape its vision starting with the Communications capability. The platform will grow as we prove value.
Youll partner with leadership to define the platforms direction assess existing technology identify the next set of investments and help evolve the vision through learning gained from shipping customers and overall ecosystem. While aiming for the sky in terms of longer term vision you will deliver incremental value every sprint by being grounded in todays reality.
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 lead the team: Hire the initial engineers for the Growth Platforms first team. Set the teams culture operating rhythm and engineering standards. Mentor engineers create career growth opportunities and help scale the organization as scope expands
- Build capabilities that unlock new experiments: This isnt about building an experimentation platformits about building the product capabilities (personalized messaging self-service publishing cross-system integrations) that make it dramatically easier for teams across Figma to run growth experiments without engineering bottlenecks
- Leverage AI to scale quality and speed: Explore and integrate AI-driven approachesfor brand consistency checks visual quality validation copy generation and experiment governancethat allow experiment volume to grow without proportional growth in manual review
- Provide hands-on technical leadership: Guide architecture decisions review system designs and make build-vs-integrate choices
- Partner across the company: collaborate with Marketing to align on cross-channel messaging partner with growth teams to identify platform capability needs and work with product teams to ensure growth messaging improves rather than detracts from the end-user experience
- Shape the platform vision: Define what to build next based on adoption impact and what you learn from each phase. The roadmap will evolve as we learnyoull be central to how it evolves
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
- 3 years in engineering management with a strong track record of building and shipping application platforms
- 7 years of software engineering experience at the application or product tier
- Experience driving outsized impact from small changessay a UI layout change that lifted growth 20%and energized by enabling such wins at 10x scale
- Demonstrate strategic insight to optimize impact for both longer and short term.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments delivering continuous value while building toward a longer-term platform vision
- Track record of prioritizing by impact leveraging existing assets to accelerate and scaling through platform-level thinking
- Experience working cross-functionally with marketing product design and data
While its not required its an added plus if you also have:
- Experience at a product-led growth company during a period of multi-product expansion
- Experience building platforms that enable non-engineering teams (marketing design content) to run experiments or publish content independently
- Background in personalization systems recommendation engines or ML-driven content selection
- Experience integrating with customer data platforms marketing automation systems or building user attribute services from product usage data
- Familiarity with using AI for quality assurance brand consistency or content governance at scale
- Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) infrastructure
Pay Transparency Disclosure
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including but not limited to individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience potential impact and scope of role) market demands and specific work location.
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; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave holidays and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal state and local laws including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employerprovided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days cell phone and home internet reimbursements and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time consistent with applicable law.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$258000 - $376000 USD
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.
By applying for this job the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figmas Candidate Privacy Notice.
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Manager
About Company
Figma is the leading collaborative design tool for building meaningful products. Seamlessly design, prototype, develop, and collect feedback in a single platform.
