Manager, Software Engineering - Design Systems Adherence (AI)

Location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA hubs, or remote in the United States; Canada is also listed as another location. In-person onboarding is required.

Annual base salary: $258,000–$376,000 USD.

Company

Figma develops a collaborative design platform for brainstorming, prototyping, translating designs into code, and iterating with AI.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a 6–8 engineer team responsible for Design Systems Adherence.
• Coach engineers through career growth, feedback, and technical leadership while building a culture of ownership and high-quality execution.
• Develop guidelines, examples, documentation, and other design-system context that AI can use effectively.
• Set technical strategy for evaluation datasets, quality rubrics, evaluators, and deterministic regression checks for Figma’s Agent.
• Build benchmarks, tools, and dashboards to measure adherence, visual quality, latency, and cost.
• Partner with Product, Design, and AI Research to improve customer and business outcomes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience leading and growing high-impact engineering teams with a record of strong impact.
• Hands-on experience building AI assistants and evaluation systems, and using current large language models and harnesses.
• Fluency in context management, dataset curation, automated evaluators, benchmarking, and regression testing.
• Strong software engineering foundation and a platform mindset, including building tools and workflows adopted by other teams.
• Ability to maintain a high quality bar for customer experience and data quality, set technical direction, and drive cross-functional alignment in complex environments.

Nice to have

• Understanding of design systems, including components, tokens, usage guidelines, and integration across design and code.
• Experience establishing evaluation and customer feedback loops for AI products.
• Experience benchmarking AI products across output quality, latency, and cost and converting findings into product priorities.
• Experience developing shared evaluation tools, curated datasets, or quality dashboards that prevent regressions.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment from a US hub or remotely in the United States; in-person onboarding is required.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; paid parental, reproductive, and family-planning leave.
• Mental health and wellness benefits, paid time off, paid sick leave, holidays, and flexible PTO for eligible exempt employees.
• Equity, annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles, and possible recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts.
• Figma supports reasonable accommodations and equal employment opportunities.

Hiring process

• Candidates must keep cameras on during video interviews.
• Applications are limited to 5 during any rolling 30-day period; candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days after rejection.