Manager, Software Engineering - UI Platform & Design Systems

Manager, Software Engineering - UI Platform & Design Systems

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

The UI Platform & Design Systems team's mission is to make Figma beautiful, accessible, and reliable by crafting high quality UI systems and patterns for Figma's engineering and design teams. This team supports the work of designers and engineers across all of Figma's product suite. We tackle the biggest opportunities across creating product UI - owning Figma's world class design system and other work to upleveling design craft, tooling and workflow improvements, and setting coding practices across teams.

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 and support a team of experienced engineers to drive best in class user interfaces across Figma's product suite

Partner with design and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects

Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of creating our frontend codebase

Work closely with design to build craft and delight in a high impact way across all of Figma, and collaborate with cross functional leaders across Figma to adopt these best practices

Build and support a culture of doing great work together for our engineering team by investing in team culture, mentorship, and meaningful work

Grow your career in a collaborative and creative engineering community

We'd Love To Hear From You If You Have :

3+ years of engineering management experience and leading a high output engineering team

8+ years of frontend engineering experience

Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers

Prior experience driving frontend platform work that enables other teams

A deep passion for design craft and usability

Proven success in building, scaling, and shipping high-quality work

While It's Not Required, It's An Added Plus If You Also Have :

Familiarity with building accessible applications and creating highly interactive web experiences

Experience with tools and frameworks for building Web applications like Webpack, CSS tools like Tailwind

An understanding of best practices for testing and observability

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF / NY Hub) :

$250,000 - $350,000 USD

Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma's compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity / expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to :

Holding interviews in an accessible location

Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing

Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers

Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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