People Data Analyst

Summary

Join Figma's growing team as a People Data Analyst and build scalable data tools to empower the People team. You will own people data tools, deliver automated reporting and intuitive dashboards, and turn complex data into empowering tools. This builder role requires expertise in SQL, HR systems, and BI tools. The ideal candidate possesses a problem-first mindset, strong analytical skills, and a collaborative work style. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States. Figma offers a competitive compensation package including health, dental, vision, retirement, parental leave, wellness benefits, PTO, and more.

Requirements

• Approximately 5 years of experience in HR or Recruiting, people analytics, or a related field, with exposure to People or Talent data
• Demonstrated experience with basic SQL and can independently write clean, efficient queries to manipulate fields and join data across systems
• Familiarity with HR systems like Workday, Greenhouse, Gem, CultureAmp, or similar tools, and a willingness to deepen your understanding over time
• Experience working with a BI tool (e.g., Tableau, Power BI), or a people analytics reporting tool (e.g., OneModel, Visier)
• A builder’s mindset—you’re excited by the challenge of designing scalable solutions that reduce manual work and increase self-service
• A passion for clean, accurate, and reliable data, along with experience driving process improvements to enhance data quality
• Problem-first mindset with strong analytical curiosity— you go beyond surface-level requests to understand the true business need and deliver solutions that solve the right problem
• A collaborative working style, with the ability to partner across HR, Recruiting, L&D, and engineering teams to execute on a roadmap

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain dashboards and analytics tools across the employee lifecycle that equip the People team and business leaders with timely, actionable insights
• Use SQL to extract, clean, and organize data from multiple People systems—ensuring it is structured, accurate, and ready to power reporting, dashboards, and analytics products across the employee lifecycle
• Design, manage, and evolve a centralized metrics library that defines and standardizes key people metrics across the employee lifecycle, supporting consistent reporting and analysis
• Own and maintain the self-service reporting experience in platforms like OneModel and Tableau—ensuring stakeholders can access trusted, timely data across the employee lifecycle
• Create clear documentation, training, and enablement resources to support non-technical users in confidently navigating dashboards and making data-informed decisions
• Establish feedback loops with end users to continuously improve dashboard usability, identify reporting gaps, and ensure data products evolve with stakeholder needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling OneModel in a high-growth environment
• Experience with report writing in Workday

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