Product Designer, Figma
Developer Tools
Design platform for product teams
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Design platform for product teams
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience working as a product designer
- 2+ years of experience working on a software product with similar scale or complexity
- Experience using Figma and/or other design and development tools
- Excellent communication and presentation skills—you’re able to explain your design decisions and strategy with clear rationale and storytelling
Desirable
- Great attention to detail, and an eye for visual craft, such as composition, typography, and layout
- A strong understanding of user-centered design principles and product strategy
- Familiarity with technical things like HTML/CSS, prototyping tools such as Origami, or advanced Figma features like Auto Layout, Variables, and Components
- Past experience designing for developers, or partnering closely with developing on complex problems
- A design/development hybrid background, or experience building websites or apps
- A history of working on canvas-based interfaces or tools that support creative workflows
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a product designer to help lead design for Dev Tools, which is a major initiative at Figma and a key part of our customer base
- In this role, you’ll be focused on the developer experience inside and outside of Figma, and you’ll explore how we can continue to close the gaps between design and production
- Our first major developer product—Dev Mode—is still in an early stage, and there’s so much left to figure out
- With an eye for simplicity and craft, curiosity for how product teams work together, and an appreciation for twisty technical challenges, you can help us define the future of design ↔ dev collaboration (and more!)
- Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
- Help deliver clear storytelling around customer needs and business opportunities
- Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and design peers
- Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals
- Design and ship high-quality features and product improvements
- Be a mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to your peers (and benefit from strong personal and professional mentorship opportunities yourself!)
- Some projects you could work on:
- Improve workflows, processes, and communication between designers and developers
- Figure out how to better connect design systems in Figma to external code components in Dev Mode
- Enhance Figma’s tooling for the developer audience, so it’s easier for teams to understand, adopt, and integrate with existing development workflows
- Explore new AI technologies to help accelerate the design → production process
- Imagine new possibilities in this space, and help craft the future vision for 2025 and beyond
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.
Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.
Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
97% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2024
$415.7m
SERIES F
Jan 2022
$0.5m
SERIES E
Total funding: $749.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health, Dental, & Vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Company values
- Build community
- Run with it
- Love your craft
- Grow as you go
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dylan Field
(CEO)Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.
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