Manager of Software Engineering, Figma

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers working on products used by external users
• A proven track record of building products (both as a manager and individual contributor) that are best in class in user experience
• A relentless focus on business impact through product & engineering excellence
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including mentoring, and growing senior engineers

Desirable

• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead our Developer Extensibility team as part of the broader Dev Mode team. Dev Mode is a major initiative at Figma focused on building for developers, a key part of our customer base
• With the goal of making developers more efficient, improve the collaboration between developer and designers, as well as drive overall improvements to our customer’s workflows
• The developer extensibility team is just getting started and you would be the first engineering manager to lead this new team, helping define the strategy & roadmap for future extensibility work as it relates to Dev Mode
• As all customer’s workflows & challenges are unique, extensibility is crucial to enabling customers to drive the largest efficiency gains with Dev Mode by tailoring it to their needs
• Extensibility encompasses our plugin platform, REST APIs, integrations with tools such as VSCode, and much more
• Manage and support a team of product engineers focused on building and expanding Figma’s Dev Mode product
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate work across product, design, engineering, and other functions
• Define strategy & roadmap for your team and execute on that roadmap with a high degree of autonomy, velocity, and craftsmanship
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to your teams and others that collaborate with your teams to ensure a cohesive product experience and the right technical abstractions
• Recruit, mentor and retain high performing engineers (and help with other cross functional roles). You’ll foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and taking calculated risks