Manager, Software Engineering - UI Platform & Design Systems

1 Minute ago • 3 Years + • UI/UX Design • $250,000 PA - $350,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Figma is expanding its team to make design accessible to all, offering a platform for brainstorming, prototyping, coding, and AI iteration. The UI Platform & Design Systems team focuses on creating beautiful, accessible, and reliable user interfaces through high-quality UI systems and patterns. This team supports all of Figma’s product suite, owning the design system, enhancing design craft, improving tooling and workflows, and establishing coding practices across teams. This role contributes to shaping the future of design and collaboration.
Must have:
  • Manage and support a team of experienced engineers to drive best in class user interfaces across Figma’s product suite
  • Partner with design and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
  • Get involved in the technical details of creating our frontend codebase
  • Work closely with design to build craft and delight in a high impact way across all of Figma, and collaborate with cross functional leaders across Figma to adopt these best practices
  • Build and support a culture of doing great work together for our engineering team by investing in team culture, mentorship, and meaningful work
  • Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with building accessible applications and creating highly interactive web experiences
  • Experience with tools and frameworks for building Web applications like Webpack, CSS tools like Tailwind
  • An understanding of best practices for testing and observability
Perks:
  • equity to employees
  • health, dental & vision
  • 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
  • annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles

Job Details

The UI Platform & Design Systems team’s mission is to make Figma beautiful, accessible, and reliable by crafting high quality UI systems and patterns for Figma's engineering and design teams. This team supports the work of designers and engineers across all of Figma’s product suite. We tackle the biggest opportunities across creating product UI - owning Figma’s world class design system and other work to upleveling design craft, tooling and workflow improvements, and setting coding practices across teams.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

  • Manage and support a team of experienced engineers to drive best in class user interfaces across Figma’s product suite
  • Partner with design and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
  • Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of creating our frontend codebase
  • Work closely with design to build craft and delight in a high impact way across all of Figma, and collaborate with cross functional leaders across Figma to adopt these best practices
  • Build and support a culture of doing great work together for our engineering team by investing in team culture, mentorship, and meaningful work
  • Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community

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

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience and leading a high output engineering team
  • 8+ years of frontend engineering experience
  • 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
  • Prior experience driving frontend platform work that enables other teams
  • A deep passion for design craft and usability
  • Proven success in building, scaling, and shipping high-quality work

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

  • Familiarity with building accessible applications and creating highly interactive web experiences
  • Experience with tools and frameworks for building Web applications like Webpack, CSS tools like Tailwind
  • An understanding of best practices for testing and observability

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

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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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