Figma is hiring: Director, Design - Communication Tools in West New York

Figma

OverviewFigma 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!We’re seeking an experienced Design Leader to oversee pillar-wide initiatives across a few areas involving the tools we build for a broader audience beyond professional designers (including: FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Buzz, and more).In this role, you’ll tackle strategic challenges, from building new products to evolving and scaling existing ones—all while empowering your teams to deliver ambitious, high-quality work. The work you’ll do will redefine Figma’s product suite, core audiences, and future as a business, solving problems across our product portfolio.As a Design leader at Figma, you’ll lead a team of world-class designers, with the opportunity to expand this group as the scope and impact of our work evolves. In this deeply cross-functional role, you’ll collaborate with product management, engineering, research, marketing, and other teams to shape both product and business strategy in our next chapter.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 FigmaManage and hire a group of world-class designersPartner with Product and Engineering leads in this area to improve team processes and execution and coach individual teams through setting roadmap and strategyDevelop a perspective on your team’s product areas and successfully advocate for it across the organizationRun and improve team processes like critiques and sprintsAdvance your own skills at people management in a supportive and growth-oriented environmentWe want you to be in the work; this means both managing people, and helping oversee strategy and executionWe’d love to hear from you if you have5+ years of design management experience, ideally including managing managersA proven track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex design challengesClear hands-on expertise with Figma’s tools, and a strong ability to mentor and guide design teamsExperience influencing teams through strategic thinking and communicationDepth in the latest AI developments and modern toolingHelp lead teams with resilience and guide through ambiguityNice to haveExperience working on early stage or zero-to-one projects, and seeing them through into unambiguous market fitThe ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a sense of humor and a proactive, solution-oriented approachComfort exploring and experimenting with new methodologies and continuously seeking to improve both personal and team performanceAt 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 and BenefitsPay Transparency DisclosureIf 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): $281,000 — $365,000 USDAt 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 locationEnabling closed captioning on video conferencingEnsuring all written communication be compatible with screen readersChanging the mode or format of interviewsTo 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.By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

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