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# Developer Advocate, Payload

- **Company:** Figma, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $269,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Github, Screen Reader, Systems Integration, Figma, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/developer-advocate-payload-new-york-ny--2656faf6-570b-4733-aced-6b4b3c22cc5a

## About the Role

Wheel/Front-End Loader, Prototyping, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Design, Sales, Wheel/Front-End Loader, Market Entry Strategy, Marketing, Customer Experience, GitHub, * Have deep, hands-on expertise with Payload and experience integrating it within real product teams.

 * Are comfortable operating in evolving workflows, including CMS, DAM, design systems, and AI-assisted design or prototyping.
 * Are passionate about engaging with and contributing to the design or developer community.

While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have:

 * An entrepreneurial mindset, with the enthusiasm and ability to transform early-stage ideas into polished, impactful outcomes
 * The flexibility and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to engage with the Payload community in person

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.

## Description

We''re looking for a Developer Advocate focused on Payload to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You''ll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design and developer community into our go-to-market strategies. You''ll also champion our users'' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.

This is a full-time role that can be held from our New York City or San Francisco hub, or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

 * Advocate for Payload: Promote Payload and the Payload + Figma integrations to developers inside and outside Figma.
 * Empower Payload connections: Collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Experience teams to help customers unlock the full potential of Payload across real product workflows.
 * Engage with the Payload community: Triage GitHub issues and community PRs, including labeling, reproducing and routing them, and working with engineering on review and prioritization.
 * Create compelling content: Create technical content for Payload + Figma products: tutorials, demos, videos, starter templates and livestreams.
 * Inspire community connections: Foster meaningful relationships within the Payload community, identify collaboration opportunities, and nurture user-driven initiatives.
 * Speak and engage at events and in co-marketing: Regularly present at industry meetups, conferences, and community events, sharing practical insights from real-world design work.
 * Champion user voices: Stay attuned to community feedback, sentiment, and emerging design trends-advocating internally to inform product decisions and improvements., * 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.