Manager, Software Engineering - Growth Platform

5 hours, 20 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
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

  • Hire and lead the initial engineering team for the Growth Platform.
  • Establish team culture, operating rhythms, and engineering standards.
  • Mentor engineers, support career growth, and help scale the organization as scope expands.
  • Build product capabilities such as personalized messaging, self-service publishing, and cross-system integrations to enable growth experiments.
  • Explore and integrate AI-driven approaches for quality checks, copy generation, and experiment governance.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership by guiding architecture decisions and reviewing system designs.
  • Make build-versus-integrate decisions for platform capabilities and supporting systems.
  • Partner with Marketing, growth teams, and product teams to align messaging and improve the end-user experience.
  • Define and evolve the platform roadmap based on adoption, impact, and learnings from each phase.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience with a strong track record of building and shipping application platforms.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience at the application or product tier.
  • Experience driving outsized impact from small changes and scaling those wins broadly.
  • Ability to think strategically and optimize for both short-term and long-term impact.
  • Experience operating effectively in ambiguous environments while delivering continuous value.
  • Track record of prioritizing by impact, leveraging existing assets, and scaling through platform-level thinking.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, product, design, and data.
  • Experience at a product-led growth company during a period of multi-product expansion (preferred).
  • Experience building platforms that enable non-engineering teams to run experiments or publish content independently (preferred).
  • Background in personalization systems, recommendation engines, or ML-driven content selection (preferred).
  • Experience integrating with customer data platforms, marketing automation systems, or building user attribute services from product usage data (preferred).
  • Familiarity with using AI for quality assurance, brand consistency, or content governance at scale (preferred).
  • Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) infrastructure (preferred).

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $258,000 to $376,000 USD.
  • Equity package.
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement plan with company contribution.
  • Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support.
  • Mental health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous PTO and company recharge days.
  • Learning and development stipend, work-from-home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.

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