Technical Program Manager, Figma
$149-317k
Salary applicable to SF and NYC candidates. + Equity
Design platform for product teams
Open for applications
Design platform for product teams
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$149-317k
Salary applicable to SF and NYC candidates. + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of technical program management experience
- Expertise in organizing and driving complex initiatives like multi-team product launches and multi-quarter platform migrations
- Experience operating in ambiguity, shepherding product, process, and/or engineering programs from concept to completion
- Ability to find the balance between driving in a scrappy manner vs structured program management. Getting results!
- The ability to form close, effective stakeholder relationships and manage competing priorities and incentives
- Experience building and maintaining automated project dashboards (Asana, Mode, Datadog) and integrations
What the job involves
- The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma’s most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager to partner with our Tech org
- The TPM team will take on oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org in order to succeed
- For 2024, our areas of focus are infrastructure and product performance, reliability, quality & developer velocity
- These efforts will involve prioritization, decision making, tracking execution & driving operational excellence in those areas. Process engineering will be a key part of this leadership role
- Drive complex programs and projects, involving wide varieties of technical and non-technical stakeholders, across product areas at Figma. This includes managing project priorities, schedules, ensuring projects are properly scoped and resourced, identifying risks, partnering closely with cross-functional collaborators, and clearly communicating progress and outcomes to stakeholders from IC to leadership altitudes
- Have extensive influence in defining processes that enable greater collaboration within and across our product, engineering, and cross-functional organizations like marketing, sales, and support. This could be anything from tooling and documentation hygiene for product teams, to team-wide rituals and culture
- Be a critical voice in the development of a best-in-class product and engineering operations culture
- Run programs that cross engineering team boundaries and involve significant product, business, and coordination complexity. This could include one or more of the following:
- Solidifying Platform foundations
- Eng-wide Quality and DevOps improvements and SLA tracking
- New feature development for product roadmap delivery
- Driving high-visibility xfn forums and Config Readiness
- Process Engineering as we mature our SDLC. Portfolio level reporting, Xfn Engineering Planning and OKR tracking
Our take
Figma is a web-based design platform that helps cross-functional teams of designers, project managers, and developers easily collaborate on product design projects. Its standout feature, Multiplayer mode, is like Google Docs for design, letting team members collaborate in real-time on project files that are hosted in the cloud.
Founded in 2012, Figma quickly established itself among its competitors in the sector and achieved a valuation exceeding $10 billion in 2021, boosted by a trend towards remote work. Its acquistion by Adobe for twice that amount just a year later raised eyebrows, but is a testament to the huge potential of this company and its product.
Thousands of industry-leading companies such as AirBnB, Dropbox, GitHub and Microsoft use Figma to scale their design efforts easily across distributed teams. Adobe has committed to leaving Figma autonomous going forward, and Figma will benefit from Adobe's digital imaging and AI tech in its product development.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
97% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2024
$415.7m
SERIES F
Jan 2022
$0.5m
SERIES E
Total funding: $749.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health, Dental, & Vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & fertility support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Generous PTO
- Company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Company values
- Build community
- Run with it
- Love your craft
- Grow as you go
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dylan Field
(CEO)Previous Research Assistant at Microsoft for 1 year. Spent 2.5 years at Brown University pursuing a CS/Math degree, dropping out with the support of the Thiel Fellowship, when he earnt a grant of $100,000 to pursue entrepreneurial projects.
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