Director, People Partners - Product, Design & Engineering
FigmaRole Description & Requirements
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!
As Director, People Partners for Product, Design & Engineering (PDE), you'll be partnering with the leaders that are responsible for the teams building Figma and leading a team of highly skilled People Partners. You'll operate as a trusted advisor - coaching, challenging, and guiding the organization through rapid growth, reorganization, and change. As a member of the People team, you’ll partner closely with all of our People functions to build a best in class people function. If you’re energized by ambiguity, adept at building deep relationships, and excited to shape what great People Partnering looks like at Figma, we’d love to hear from you!
This is a full time role held from our San Francisco hub.
What you'll do at Figma:
- Serve as the strategic People Partner to Figma’s CTO and Chief Design Officer, building the credibility and trust to influence how they lead, organize, and grow their teams
- Lead and develop a talented team of People Partners across the Product, Design and Engineering organizations
- Lead and execute our People Programs such as org design, resource management, performance, and change management through periods of rapid scaling, reorganization, and shifting priorities
- Drive the core people cycles for your orgs across performance, calibration, talent reviews, succession planning while raising the bar on quality and consistency
- Partner across the People function and our cross functional partners to help execute the People strategy across the PDE organization
- Use data and insights to inform your point of view, measure impact, and tell a compelling story to the leaders you support
- Help shape and scale the People Partner function itself - developing partners, strengthening the operating model, and modeling what great looks like
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Significant experience as a People Partner leader in high-growth environments, including managing a team and partnering directly with executive leaders
- A track record of supporting Product, Design, and/or Engineering organizations, with genuine fluency in how technical and design teams operate
- Strong business and technical acumen - the ability to build deep product and technical knowledge and understand how the business operates
- Demonstrated ability to challenge and advise senior leaders, influencing decisions and outcomes.
- You stay grounded and resilient, even when things move quickly
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 Disclosure
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.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
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
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.
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