Job Description
Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, create, test, and ship better designs, together. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
We’re looking for our first Technical Writing Manager to manage a talented team of six technical writers on the Product Education team. The Technical Writing team authors help center articles, developer documentation, and video tutorial scripts. The documentation on our help center receives over 1.3 million average views each month, assisting millions of people to learn to use Figma and FigJam.
Our ideal candidate is a passionate teacher and collaborator, that is driven by the team’s mission to make more makers through creating free and accessible educational content. They should have experience with technical writing, and understand best practices. They should be an experienced content strategist capable of directing an expansive project roadmap, and identifying optimizations in our writing processes.
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:- Manage six experienced technical writers, and hire future writers to the team.
- Work alongside content strategists to provide input for the team’s project roadmap.
- Collaborate with Product Support leaders to align Product Education’s projects to the needs of Support.
- Own a portfolio of writing projects, and help writers navigate projects to deliver on time and within scope.
- Maintain weekly 1:1s, career growth conversation opportunities, and other meetings to understand how your reports are doing and how to support them.
- Provide regular feedback during 1:1s, asynchronously, and formally during twice-yearly performance reviews.
- Develop a collaborative and supportive team environment. Inherit, but improve and refine team processes such as team meetings, warm ups, and other rituals.
- Cultivate important relationships with cross-functional partners..
- Act as a content editor to assist writers to craft clear narratives, provide feedback, and apply our style guide.
- Transparently share data about the team’s successes to the company through written updates, data, research, and presentations.
- 3+ years of people management experience.
- Technical writing experience, especially for SaaS tech products for startups.
- Project management and/or team operations experience.
- A strong track record of leading content strategy in a content team.
- Experience translating and localizing content into multiple languages at scale.
- Design skills, especially with software like Figma.
- A drive to democratize design and development to make opportunities available to everybody.
- Investing in Figma: The Decade of Design
- How work is changing at Figma
- Figma's next product is a multiplayer whiteboard called FigJam
- Software Design Startup Figma Is Now Worth $10 Billion
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please let your recruiter know if you require accommodation.
About Figma
Dylan Field and Evan Wallace co-founded Figma in 2012 with the vision of building tools for designers in the browser. Their goal was to create the first design tool that combined the accessibility of the Web with the functionality of a native app. Today Figma is a platform with tools and spaces to support the entire product development process—idea to design to build—and has simplified collaboration for companies like Microsoft, Uber, and The New York Times to name a few.
At Figma, we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse backgrounds, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, products, and community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace—we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national orientation, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the applicable candidate section of Figma's Privacy Policy.Â
Date Posted
09/14/2022
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