Technical Recruiter

Technical Recruiter at Figma

Figma is building a 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!

We are very excited to grow our Talent team! We’re looking to hire an expert Technical Recruiter to support the growth of Figma’s Engineering organization. As a Technical Recruiter, you’ll operate in a full-lifecycle capacity supporting top of funnel strategy to negotiating and closing talent. This role will allow you to build positive relationships, exude our values, and contribute to our org-wide recruiting efforts and processes.

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 full-cycle recruiting processes for a variety of software engineering roles
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to develop early-stage hiring strategies for critical technical positions
• Craft thoughtful candidate outreach messages to engage passive talent
• Develop a deep understanding of Figma’s business and products and communicate this effectively with candidates
• Act as a direct extension of our engineering team and the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach through the offer stage, ensuring an excellent candidate experience
• Take a highly organized approach to candidate tracking and pipeline metrics
• Own and iterate on our interview processes and approach to optimally evaluate and execute recruiting strategies

What we're looking for

• 4+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience
• 2+ years of experience recruiting for engineering roles
• Proven success sourcing your own pipelines and developing top of funnel strategies
• Extensive experience and expertise within engineering communities and emerging technical trends
• Experience collaborating with functional leaders and cross-functional partners to navigate complex offer scenarios and resolve candidate objections

Bonus points if you have

• Prior experience in analytics recruiting
• Experience using Figma’s products
• A team-first mentality, embracing learning, growing, and shared success with recruiting colleagues
• Experience using Gem and Greenhouse
• A passion for fostering belonging and inclusion

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.

Pay Transparency and Benefits

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has an annual base salary range of $102,000—$210,000 USD. Actual compensation will be based on qualifications, market demands, and specific work location. Remote roles are localized to employee work location. Figma offers equity, competitive benefits including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness, generous PTO, company recharge days, learning & development stipend, work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. An annual bonus plan is also available for eligible non-sales roles.

Figma is an equal opportunity workplace 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 provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities to apply and participate in the interview process. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.

Candidates are required to keep cameras on during video interviews and attend in-person onboarding if hired. Personal data in applications is processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Key skills/competency

• Technical Recruiting
• Full-cycle Recruiting
• Software Engineering Recruitment
• Candidate Sourcing
• Pipeline Management
• Interview Process Optimization
• Stakeholder Collaboration
• Offer Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition Strategy
• Candidate Experience