Manager, Software Engineering - Text and Vector

10 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $250,000 PA - $350,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Figma is expanding its team to make design accessible, offering a platform for brainstorming, prototyping, and translating designs. The Text and Vector team, central to Figma’s Design Tools, focuses on evolving the editor's features, ensuring high quality and performance. This role seeks an experienced engineering leader to scale Figma while maintaining its renowned quality and craft, working full-time from US hubs or remotely within the United States.
Must have:
  • Partner with Product and Design to build and execute on a long-term roadmap that ensures a world-class tool set and user experience for Designers in Figma
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners and other engineering teams to push the envelope for craft and quality in Figma Design
  • 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
  • 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
Good to have:
  • Experience working in the front-end, including working with WebAssembly and React
  • Experience working with modern web browser internals and performance
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Retirement with company contribution
  • Parental leave
  • Reproductive or family planning support
  • Mental health & wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO
  • Company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work from home stipend
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Sales incentive pay (for sales roles)
  • Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles)

Job Details

What you’ll do at Figma:

  • Partner with Product and Design to build and execute on a long-term roadmap that ensures a world-class tool set and user experience for Designers in Figma
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners and other engineering teams to push the envelope for craft and quality in Figma Design
  • 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
  • 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

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

  • 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
  • 5+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable software systems
  • 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, and hiring top industry talent
  • Demonstrated exceptional ability to work cross-functionally across Product, Design, and Marketing, as well as collaborating with other engineering teams to ship both customer and internal-facing projects
  • Technical curiosity - you should be ready to learn and grow alongside your team - and a love of design and craft

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

  • Experience working in the front-end, including working with WebAssembly and React
  • Experience working with modern web browser internals and performance

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

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. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$250,000 - $350,000 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 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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Figma is a collaborative web application for interface design, with additional offline features enabled by desktop applications for macOS and Windows

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