Software Engineering Manager, Figma

Growth Expansion

$233-350k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

Figma

Design platform for product teams

Job no longer available

Figma

Design platform for product teams

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Job no longer available

$233-350k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

1-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BEnterpriseInternal toolsDesignSaaSProduct Management

Company mission

Figma's mission is to help teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.

Role

Who you are

  • 2+ years of experience managing and leading high output engineering teams
  • Hands-on technical experience: you have built complex products and systems as an individual contributor, and can represent the technical details of work shipped by the team you’ve managed
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team. Proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers
  • Prior experience in building and growing product businesses

Desirable

  • Previous experience working in growth teams
  • Experience with hypothesis and experiment driven product development
  • Experience digging into product analytics, user research and data yourself to help create new opportunities or investment areas for your team

What the job involves

  • The Expansion team under Growth is on a mission to drive Expansion ARR by ensuring paying users across businesses and tiers find compelling reasons to stay, upgrade, and expand their Figma licenses
  • In this role, you will develop and execute monetization strategies using data-driven insights and experiments across Figma's diverse product offerings
  • Collaborating closely with internal teams, your role extends to effectively maintaining and optimizing upgrade pathways within our sophisticated products
  • Lead, grow and support a diverse team of full stack engineers responsible for Figma products’ license Expansion, upgrades and churn prevention across user segments
  • Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams. Examples of key areas include pricing and tier differentiation, requests flow design and multi-product monetization
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership to your teams and others that collaborate with your teams to ensure a cohesive product experience and the right technical abstractions
  • Work closely with Product, Research, Design, Data and other engineering teams to define and build best-in-class collaboration experiences and monetization strategies
  • Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
  • Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

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.

Insights

Top investors

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

Founders

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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