Fast Facts

Figma is seeking a Manager for their Software Engineering - UI Platform & Design Systems team to enhance design quality and collaboration across their product suite. This full-time position is open to candidates across the United States, including remote options.

Responsibilities: Manage and support a team of engineers to drive user interface quality, collaborate with design and engineering leadership on strategy, and cultivate a productive team culture.

Skills: Strong engineering management and leadership experience, frontend engineering expertise, and a passion for design craft and usability are essential.

Qualifications: 3+ years in engineering management and 8+ years in frontend engineering with experience in motivating and guiding teams; familiarity with accessible applications is a plus.

Location: Remote work available within the United States, with options to work from San Francisco or New York.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $150,000 - $220,000.

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.