Job description
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!
Figma Product Managers are highly collaborative self-starters who push their teams to build amazing experiences for all our users. We have a diverse range of experiences and expertise and love learning from each other. Across all product areas, successful Figma PMs thrive on solving hard problems, considering every detail, and achieving ambitious goals. If this sounds like you, come join us!
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Creation Engine pillar, the foundational teams that power Figma’s canvas, rendering, performance, and extensions across all products. This role sits at the intersection of cutting-edge web technology, creative tools, and AI innovation, building the systems that make Figma feel magical while handling immense technical complexity behind the scenes.
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:
- Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for foundational rendering, animation, and developer experience systems in alignment with company goals and user needs
- Lead the development of advanced interactive capabilities within Figma’s design ecosystem, ensuring compatibility across various environments
- Drive initiatives to evaluate and integrate LLMs, focusing on establishing effective communication systems and performance measurement frameworks for AI-powered design tools
- Oversee version control systems, tracking how user changes are stored, restored, reviewed, and compared over time
- Optimize core performance of Figma in browser and desktop environments, addressing load times, memory consumption, and offline capabilities
- Collaborate deeply with Design, Engineering, and Product Leadership on both strategy and execution of foundational systems
- Develop internal developer experiences and abstractions that enable product teams to build quickly without navigating complex foundational code
- Prioritize technical investments based on user impact, business objectives, and engineering constraints
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 6+ years of experience as a full-time Product Manager
- Experience working with core platform teams, particularly in developer experience and/or media/graphics domains
- Understanding of game engine concepts, rendering systems, or animation frameworks
- Experience enabling non-technical teams on technical priorities
- Strong stakeholder alignment skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience shipping high-quality software that drove efficiency for users and business results for your company
- Demonstrated grit and persistence in solving complex technical challenges
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- Experience with graphics programming, WebGL, or browser rendering technologies
- Background in building developer platforms or APIs
- Experience with version control systems or supporting offline use cases
- Knowledge of LLM integration with visual design tools
- Experience at companies with similar technical challenges
- Experience building in multi-product environments
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):
$164,000—$294,000 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 [email protected]. 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.
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