Manager, Software Engineering - Design Systems Editor

The Design Systems Editor team is responsible for the authoring experience of Figma’s Design Systems product the features that enable teams to scale their design and designers. Every day our users leverage design systems to create share and reuse design elements in order to ensure design consistency across their brand and products and accelerate a designer’s workflow. Looking into the future we see scaling the product design workflow at the core of product development and collaboration.

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 the team owning one of Figma’s core editor products: Design Systems

• Work closely with Product Design Data and Research to drive product strategy and build the industry’s leading design system tools

• Foster a strong culture of engineering excellence to ship high quality product features

• Recruit onboard and grow high-performing engineers

• Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring community events and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma

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

• 3+ years of experience managing high output engineering teams

• Proven track record of building and shipping high-quality product features at scale

• A passion and unwavering commitment to improving engineering scalability and performance

• Experience scaling products and teams in high growth environments

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

• Experience working with design or editing tools

• Experience in building frontend platforms or frameworks

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.