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# Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

- **Company:** Figma, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,000 - $348,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Screen Reader, Systems Architecture, Material UI, Figma
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_69c3226b89fe28e6d25cc5d78251b6cb

## About the Role

* 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
 * Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
 * Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
 * Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational change
 * Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows, * Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and code
 * Creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption
 * A track record of building shared platform or infrastructure services that other teams depend on
 * Leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization

## Description

* Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
 * Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
 * Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
 * Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
 * Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
 * Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
 * Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite, * 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.