Software Engineering Manager, Figma

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
• Experience managing or working on product platform teams where you are building products that are leveraged by internal product and XFN teams
• Strong product intuition and XFN collaboration skills to identify and evangelize business/product gaps that can be solved through a platform product
• Hands-on technical experience: you have built complex backend systems as an individual contributor, and can represent the technical details of work shipped by the team you’ve managed
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior/staff engineers

Desirable

• The Growth Platform team is on a mission to supercharge Figma’s growth by building a suite of platform products that will accelerate product and marketing teams in their user and revenue growth ambitions
• Currently, the scope of this team includes Figma’s experimentation platform, localization framework, personalization framework, and our in-product messaging framework
• We are looking for an Engineering Manager to define and build the next generation of platform products that will unlock growth for Figma
• A successful EM will partner closely with growth product and growth marketing teams to strategically identify new platform opportunities while continuing to ensure engineering excellence with the existing systems
• Lead, grow and support a diverse team of engineers responsible for Figma’s growth platform products and frameworks
• Partner closely with engineering and marketing leadership to identify opportunities and develop high leverage platforms that will enable product and marketing teams to accelerate growth efforts
• Work closely with all product engineering teams at Figma to build best in class frameworks that will drastically increase the success of their respective products and features
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to your teams and others that collaborate with your teams to ensure that systems are built for scale and quality
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community