Manager, Software Engineering - Growth Platform

• Build and lead the team: Hire the initial engineers for the Growth Platform's first team. Set the team's culture, operating rhythm, and engineering standards. Mentor engineers, create career growth opportunities, and help scale the organization as scope expands
• Build capabilities that unlock new experiments: This isn't about building an experimentation platform-it's about building the product capabilities (personalized messaging, self-service publishing, cross-system integrations) that make it dramatically easier for teams across Figma to run growth experiments without engineering bottlenecks
• Leverage AI to scale quality and speed: Explore and integrate AI-driven approaches-for brand consistency checks, visual quality validation, copy generation, and experiment governance-that allow experiment volume to grow without proportional growth in manual review
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: Guide architecture decisions, review system designs, and make build-vs-integrate choices
• Partner across the company: collaborate with Marketing to align on cross-channel messaging, partner with growth teams to identify platform capability needs, and work with product teams to ensure growth messaging improves rather than detracts from the end-user experience
• Shape the platform vision: Define what to build next based on adoption, impact, and what you learn from each phase. The roadmap will evolve as we learn-you'll be central to how it evolves, * Holding interviews in an accessible location
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• 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.

• 3+ years in engineering management, with a strong track record of building and shipping application platforms
• 7+ years of software engineering experience at the application or product tier
• Experience driving outsized impact from small changes-say, a UI layout change that lifted growth 20%-and energized by enabling such wins at 10x scale
• Demonstrate strategic insight to optimize impact for both longer and short term.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, delivering continuous value while building toward a longer-term platform vision
• Track record of prioritizing by impact, leveraging existing assets to accelerate, and scaling through platform-level thinking
• Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, product, design, and data, * Experience at a product-led growth company during a period of multi-product expansion
• Experience building platforms that enable non-engineering teams (marketing, design, content) to run experiments or publish content independently
• Background in personalization systems, recommendation engines, or ML-driven content selection
• Experience integrating with customer data platforms, marketing automation systems, or building user attribute services from product usage data
• Familiarity with using AI for quality assurance, brand consistency, or content governance at scale
• Experience with internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) infrastructure, 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

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! You will be the first engineering manager for the Growth Platform, and you'll help shape its vision, starting with the Communications capability. The platform will grow as we prove value. You'll partner with leadership to define the platform's direction, assess existing technology, identify the next set of investments, and help evolve the vision through learning gained from shipping, customers, and overall ecosystem. While aiming for the sky in terms of longer term vision, you will deliver incremental value every sprint by being grounded in today's reality. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.