Software Engineering Manager Design Systems

About Figma

Figma 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!

About the Design Systems Management Team

Design systems are one of the core features of Figma’s creative editing tools, letting our users repeatedly use strong design foundations. The Design Systems Management team has a mission to make design systems easy to understand, access and consume so Figma users can efficiently bring their visions to reality. This team owns the core data model of our design systems libraries - how they’re accessed, subscribed to, and surfaced across teams. They also support how people use and find design systems, from ensuring you can start with pre-made components on day one to accessing your design system at the right moments once you have one in place.

What You'll Do

• Manage and support a team of experienced engineers to drive design systems usage across Figma’s product suite, with a goal of growing the team in 2026.
• Partner with product and design leadership to set the strategy, priorities, and mission for the team and roadmap.
• Roll up your sleeves to provide technical leadership of the team, including supporting their technical decisions and growth of team members.
• Build a collaborative culture of doing great work together, by investing in direct mentorship, shaping team practices, and helping guide the team towards meaningful work.
• Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community.

Qualifications We'd Love to Hear From You

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including 2+ years of manager of manager experience.
• 8+ years of product engineering experience.
• Built high-performing and highly engaged engineering teams through hiring and growing people.
• Proven track record of building and shipping beloved and high-quality products.
• A deep passion for design craft and usability.

Bonus Points

• Experience building in especially complex product spaces, with goals of making the product as simple and usable as possible.

Work Arrangement and Location

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Compensation and Benefits

If 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: $258,000—$376,000 USD

Equal Opportunity

At 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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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 location, Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing, Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers, Changing the mode or format of interviews.

Hiring Process Notes

To 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.

Privacy

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.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Management
• Design Systems
• Team Leadership
• Product Strategy
• Technical Leadership
• Hiring and Growing Teams
• Product Development
• Usability
• Mentorship
• Roadmap Planning