Designer Advocate

1 Month ago • All levels • Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Figma is seeking a Designer Advocate to join their growing team in Sydney, Australia. This role involves empowering users through engaging content and interactions, collaborating with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams, and championing user voices internally. Responsibilities include creating educational content, fostering community connections, speaking at industry events, and advocating for user feedback to inform product decisions. The ideal candidate will have deep Figma expertise, a passion for the design community, strong public speaking skills, a thorough understanding of product design workflows and design systems, and experience with developer workflows. They should be empathetic to designer challenges, possess strong technical design skills, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. Some travel is expected.
Must have:
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Figma
  • Passion for engaging with the design community
  • Confident public speaking skills
  • Understanding of modern product design workflows
  • Empathy for designer challenges
  • Strong technical design skills
Good to have:
  • Experience integrating Figma with diverse teams
  • Experience building/managing design systems
  • Familiarity with developer workflows
  • Experience with component-based frameworks
  • Experience with development tool chains
  • Entrepreneurial spirit
  • Comfortable traveling up to 25%
Perks:
  • Opportunity to shape the future of design and collaboration
  • Vibrant community to learn, grow, and connect
  • Empower users at scale
  • Create compelling content
  • Inspire community connections
  • Speak and engage at events
  • Champion user voices internally
  • Grow as you go philosophy

Job Details

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're 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 you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

At Figma, we're building a vibrant community where designers, developers and adjacent roles come together to learn, grow, and connect around their shared passion. Our Advocacy team is central to this mission—empowering our users through engaging content, meaningful interactions, and genuine advocacy.

We're looking for a Designer Advocate to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You'll bring deep design expertise, authentic storytelling, and a genuine love for the design community into our go-to-market strategies. You'll also champion our users' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.

This is a full-time position based at our Sydney hub.

What you'll do at Figma:

  • Empower users at scale: Collaborate closely with our Sales and Customer Experience teams, enabling customers to unlock the full potential of Figma.
  • Create compelling content: Develop engaging written and video resources that educate, inspire, and resonate with designers everywhere.
  • Inspire community connections: Foster meaningful relationships within the Figma community, identify collaboration opportunities, and nurture user-driven initiatives.
  • Speak and engage at events: Regularly present at industry meetups, conferences, and Figma community events, amplifying our voice and sharing valuable insights.
  • Champion user voices: Stay attuned to community feedback, sentiment, and emerging design trends—advocating internally to inform product decisions and improvements.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Figma and experience integrating it within diverse design, development and engineering teams.
  • Are passionate about engaging with and contributing to the design community.
  • Are confident and comfortable speaking publicly, with the ability to captivate large audiences.
  • Have a thorough understanding of modern product design workflows and deep experience building, managing, or using design systems.
  • Familiarity with developer workflows, modern component-based frameworks, and development tool chains
  • Can empathize with and address the evolving challenges faced by designers, especially those working at scale or alongside design-adjacent roles.
  • Possess strong technical design skills with meticulous attention to interface details.
  • Are entrepreneurial at heart—excited about bringing ideas from initial experiments to impactful, polished outcomes.
  • Are comfortable traveling up to 25% of the time to connect with our community in person.

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

  • Strong listening and facilitation skills, a passion for storytelling with attention to detail, quality and accuracy

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 you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t 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.

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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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 Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

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