Manager, Product Design

14 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • $198,000 PA - $338,000 PA
Product Design

Job Description

Figma is seeking an experienced Design Leader to manage and grow a team of world-class designers and managers, overseeing pillar-wide initiatives. This role involves tackling strategic challenges, building new products, and scaling existing ones, while collaborating cross-functionally with product management, engineering, research, and marketing. The manager will shape product and business strategy, redefine Figma’s product suite, and empower teams to deliver high-quality work.
Good To Have:
  • Experience working on early stage or zero-to-one projects, seeing them through into unambiguous market fit.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a sense of humor and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
  • Comfort exploring and experimenting with new methodologies and continuously seeking to improve both personal and team performance.
Must Have:
  • Manage and hire world-class designers and managers.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leads to improve team processes and execution.
  • Coach individual teams through setting roadmap and strategy.
  • Develop and advocate for product area perspectives across the organization.
  • Run and improve team processes like critiques and sprints.
  • Advance people management skills in a supportive and growth-oriented environment.
  • Oversee strategy and execution while managing people.
  • 5+ years of design management experience, ideally including managing managers.
  • Proven track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex design challenges.
  • Clear hands-on expertise with Figma’s tools and ability to mentor and guide design teams.
  • Experience influencing teams through strategic thinking and communication.
  • Depth in the latest AI developments and modern tooling.
  • Ability to lead teams with resilience and guide through ambiguity.
Perks:
  • Equity
  • Health, dental & 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
  • Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles

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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!

We’re seeking an experienced Design Leader to oversee pillar-wide initiatives across a few areas. In this role, you’ll tackle big strategic challenges, from building new products to evolving and scaling existing ones—all while empowering your teams to deliver ambitious, high-quality work. The work you’ll do will redefine Figma’s product suite, core audiences, and future as a business, solving problems across our product portfolio.

As a Design leader at Figma, you’ll lead a team of world-class designers and managers, with the opportunity to expand this group as the scope and impact of our work evolves. In this deeply cross-functional role, you’ll collaborate with product management, engineering, research, marketing, and other teams to shape both product and business strategy in our next chapter.

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 hire a group of world-class designers and managers
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leads in this area to improve team processes and execution and coach individual teams through setting roadmap and strategy
  • Develop a perspective on your teams’ product areas and successfully advocate for it across the organization
  • Run and improve team processes like critiques and sprints
  • Advance your own skills at people management in a supportive and growth-oriented environment
  • We want you to be in the work; this means both managing people, and helping oversee strategy and execution

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

  • 5+ years of design management experience, ideally including managing managers
  • A proven track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex design challenges.
  • Clear hands-on expertise with Figma’s tools, and a strong ability to mentor and guide design teams.
  • Experience influencing teams through strategic thinking and communication
  • Depth in the latest AI developments and modern tooling
  • Help lead teams with resilience and guide through ambiguity

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

  • Experience working on early stage or zero-to-one projects, and seeing them through into unambiguous market fit
  • The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a sense of humor and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
  • Comfort exploring and experimenting with new methodologies and continuously seeking to improve both personal and team 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):

$198,000 - $338,000 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.

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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