Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; or remotely in the United States. In-person onboarding is required if hired.

Annual base salary: $204,000–$348,000 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 designers working across internal design systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and adoption.
• Set the vision and quality bar for the evolution of Figma’s internal design system and infrastructure.
• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution.
• Evolve governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices.
• Hire, coach, retain, and develop designers across multiple workstreams.
• Represent the Design Systems perspective in organizational decisions and product-suite expansion.

Requirements

• 4+ years of design management experience with direct people leadership across multiple workstreams.
• Strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers.
• Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens, variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture.
• Direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows.
• Experience evolving an internal design system at scale and driving adoption across a sizable product organization.
• Deep, hands-on Figma expertise and experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience building token pipelines and synchronizing design foundations with code.
• Experience creating internal tooling and automation for system maintenance, contribution, and adoption.
• Experience building shared platform or infrastructure services used by other teams.
• Experience leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity and competitive benefits.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage with retirement contributions.
• Parental leave, reproductive and family planning support, and mental health and wellness benefits.
• Flexible paid time off, paid sick leave, holidays, and company recharge days.
• Possible cell phone, home internet, and lifestyle spending reimbursements.
• Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the application and interview process.

Hiring process

• Qualifications, scope, and compensation are assessed during the interview process.
• Video interviews require candidates to keep their cameras on.
• In-person onboarding is required after hiring.