Director, People Partners - Product, Design & Engineering

The posting, as Figma wrote it

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 life—whether 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!

As Director, People Partners for Product, Design & Engineering (PDE), you'll be partnering with the leaders that are responsible for the teams building Figma and leading a team of highly skilled People Partners. You'll operate as a trusted advisor - coaching, challenging, and guiding the organization through rapid growth, reorganization, and change. As a member of the People team, you’ll partner closely with all of our People functions to build a best in class people function. If you’re energized by ambiguity, adept at building deep relationships, and excited to shape what great People Partnering looks like at Figma, we’d love to hear from you!

This is a full time role held from our San Francisco hub or remote within the US with frequent travel to San Francisco.

What you'll do at Figma

• Serve as the strategic People Partner to Figma’s CTO and Chief Design Officer, building the credibility and trust to influence how they lead, organize, and grow their teams
• Lead and develop a talented team of People Partners across the Product, Design and Engineering organizations
• Lead and execute our People Programs such as org design, resource management, performance, and change management through periods of rapid scaling, reorganization, and shifting priorities
• Drive the core people cycles for your orgs across performance, calibration, talent reviews, succession planning while raising the bar on quality and consistency
• Partner across the People function and our cross functional partners to help execute the People strategy across the PDE organization
• Use data and insights to inform your point of view, measure impact, and tell a compelling story to the leaders you support
• Help shape and scale the People Partner function itself - developing partners, strengthening the operating model, and modeling what great looks like

We'd love to hear from you if you have

• Significant experience as a People Partner leader in high-growth environments, including managing a team and partnering directly with executive leaders
• A track record of supporting Product, Design, and/or Engineering organizations, with genuine fluency in how technical and design teams operate
• Strong business and technical acumen - the ability to build deep product and technical knowledge and understand how the business operates
• Demonstrated ability to challenge and advise senior leaders, influencing decisions and outcomes.
• You stay grounded and resilient, even when things move quickly

At Figma
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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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Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:

• Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
• Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.

Once the applicable days has passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.