Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

3 weeks, 6 days ago
Full-time
Lead
DevOps and Infrastructure
Figma

Figma

Figma provides a collaborative web application for interface design that enables users to seamlessly design, prototype, and gather feedback in real time, while also offering additional offline capabilities through desktop applications for macOS and Win...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
$333M raised

Description

  • Lead and grow designers across internal design systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and adoption.
  • Set the vision and quality bar for the evolution of Figma’s internal design system.
  • Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution.
  • Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous cross-functional work while balancing system coherence and team autonomy.
  • Evolve the design systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques, reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices.
  • Hire, coach, retain, and develop a strong design team across multiple workstreams.
  • Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions.
  • Ensure Figma’s design infrastructure scales with the expanding product suite.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams.
  • 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.
  • Direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows.
  • Experience evolving an internal design system at scale and driving adoption across a large product organization.
  • Deep hands-on Figma expertise and high agency.
  • Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows.
  • Experience building token pipelines and maintaining synchronization between design foundations and code (preferred).
  • Experience creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption (preferred).
  • Experience leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization (preferred).

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $204,000 to $348,000 USD.
  • Equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits with company contributions.
  • Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Paid time off, including paid sick leave and holidays.
  • Flexible PTO for exempt employees, plus possible recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.

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