Director, Product - Product Foundations

Figma
Summary
Join Figma's growing team as a customer-centric product leader to drive multi-product growth and enhance user experience across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. Lead teams responsible for shared user experiences, including navigation, platform strategy, notifications, comments, and accessibility. Set vision and strategy for navigation and interoperability, collaborating with engineering, data, and design teams. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the US. The position requires deep user empathy, strategic execution experience, and strong leadership skills. Figma offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.
Requirements
- Deep user empathy and are able to understand complex product spaces
- A track record of setting strategy and executing on major user-facing initiatives in environments with scale, ambiguity, and complexity (both technical and product)
- 8+ years managing PMs, experience coaching a senior bench of PMs, fostering collaborative and high-performance, joyful team environments
- Skill with systems thinking/systems design, UX product chops, and would describe yourself as a pace setter
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration & communication
Responsibilities
- Lead teams responsible for shared user experiences across the Figma product suite. These include wayfinding and navigation experiences (including the file browser), platform-wide strategy (platform coherence), notifications, comments, native experiences on desktop and mobile, our internal design system (Figma Pattern Library) and accessibility efforts
- Set vision, strategy, and goals for navigation and interoperability at Figma. Dive into details to drive hard decisions forward. Role-model boundaryless leadership and sharp PMing
- Work closely with cross-functional partners in engineering, data, and design to drive inspiring outcomes across teams within this group and across the company
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working on major cross-app overhauls and designs systems for a multi-product company
Benefits
- 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
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles