The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations,: tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design: system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy,: resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing: system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution: paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow: their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
What they're looking for
- Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions: and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite
- + years of design management experience, including direct people leadership: across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
- Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component: libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
- Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across: a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
