Director - People Analytics

We’re looking for a hands-on Director People Analytics to leverage your passion for data into identifying key insights that drive business decisions.  You will lead the implementation of a new people analytics tool and will develop a long term strategy that allows us to embed analytics in the rhythm of the business - everything from reporting to insights. You’ll also grow and develop a team of analysts who are currently focused on building dashboards within our current recruiting and people systems.  If you’re excited about building for scale and working alongside an amazing people team during a time of growing maturity this role could be for you!

We’ve spent the past few years implementing new systems and processes - now comes the fun part of bringing the data together to tell stories across candidate and employee lifecycles!

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Lead develop and centralize a team of recruiting and people analysts focused on building employee lifecycle metrics

• Oversee the implementation of a new analytics tool that will allow us to combine multiple data sources including Greenhouse Gem and Workday

• Use data to create compelling and actionable data stories to drive insights and decision making across the organization

• Partner with executives and people team collaborators to prepare materials for Board meetings and company wide initiatives

• Identify and provide key insights and recommendations around organizational health including hiring and retention internal mobility belonging & inclusion employee experience and more.

• Build a roadmap and prioritization process for continued development of our reporting and analytics capabilities across all people systems

• Ensure consistent methodology and alignment on data collection definitions metrics and reporting across our systems and teams

• Collaborate with partners on business process changes that may impact data

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience in a quantitative or people analytics role

• A passion for analyzing data to see beyond the numbers and help inform and influence business decisions

• Experience leading and developing a team of high performing analysts

• Proficient in data analytics able to bring to bear various internal and external data sources to generate data-driven insights and support strategic talent decisions.

• Experience using SQL R Python for data analysis

• Strong understanding of HR data and HR employee lifecycle processes (talent acquisition talent development workforce planning DE&I employee listening etc.)

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

• Expertise in statistical analysis (regression correlation scenario analysis forecasting and experimentation (A/B) testing

• Experience with capacity modeling

• Prior experience working implementing a People Analytics tool; familiarity with Greenhouse Gem and Workday

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.