Strategic Sourcing Manager

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!

Job Overview

We are looking to grow our Procurement team and are hiring a Strategic Sourcing Manager to support our growing purchasing needs. This role will be responsible for supporting several departments and will be at the nexus of all supplier engagement activities - including stakeholder relationship management, purchasing planning and negotiations/contracting. We are looking for a category expert who can cover the spend (focused on technology) incurred across all departments including Engineering, IT, Sales & Marketing as well as G&A functions. This role will report to the Director of Procurement and would be a great fit for someone that thrives in a dynamic, fast-growing, and high energy environment, and are looking for opportunities to learn and grow. 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 Figma:

• Manage all purchasing needs for assigned departments
• Work with department managers and Strategic Finance to anticipate, plan and forecast purchasing needs for assigned departments
• Work with department managers to develop accurate scopes of work, including service specifications and any negotiated terms
• Lead all supplier engagement processes including conducting vendor due diligence, competitive bids and negotiations. Partner closely with IT for any technology-related purchases
• Develop award scenarios including cost models to support negotiations, decision-making and cost forecasting
• Oversee all purchasing activities such as shepherding the purchase request process, working with Legal through the NDA/contracting process and working with Security/Compliance to ensure security/privacy needs are met
• Manage the deal pipeline including negotiating deal closure timeline with suppliers and actively prioritizing deals with Legal/Security/Compliance Teams
• Support the execution of spend management projects that accomplish key objectives. Those objectives may include savings, process improvement, supplier consolidation, risk management, sustainable procurement or improving spend visibility

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in technology-focused procurement or supplier management ideally in a fast-paced, high growth environment
• Demonstrated experience in procurement, contracting and negotiating with executives from suppliers
• Contract drafting, negotiations and redlining experience with a passion for driving cost savings and process improvement
• Strong customer service aptitude and collaboration-focused mindset

Culture and Values

At 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.

Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency Disclosure: 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: $169,000—$245,000 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.

Interview and Application Process

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. 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

• Strategic Sourcing
• Procurement
• Supplier Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Technology Procurement
• Spend Management
• Vendor Due Diligence
• Cost Modeling
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management