Product Designer

Summary

Join Figma's growing team and help lead design for Developer Tools, a key initiative impacting a major customer base. As a Product Designer, you will focus on enhancing the developer experience within and outside Figma, bridging the gap between design and production. You'll contribute to product strategy, communicate customer needs, collaborate cross-functionally, and create high-quality features. This full-time role can be based in our New York hub or remotely within the Eastern Timezone. You will work on projects such as improving designer-developer workflows, connecting design systems to external code, and exploring AI technologies to accelerate the design-to-production process. Figma values growth and encourages applications even if your experience doesn't perfectly match the description.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working as a product designer
• 2+ years of experience working on a software product with similar scale or complexity
• Experience using Figma and/or other design and development tools
• Excellent communication and presentation skills—you’re able to explain your design decisions and strategy with clear rationale and storytelling

Responsibilities

• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction
• Help deliver clear storytelling around customer needs and business opportunities
• Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and design peers
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals
• Design and ship high-quality features and product improvements
• Be a mentor and provide thoughtful feedback to your peers (and benefit from strong personal and professional mentorship opportunities yourself!)
• Improve workflows, processes, and communication between designers and developers
• Figure out how to better connect design systems in Figma to external code components in Dev Mode
• Enhance Figma’s tooling for the developer audience, so it’s easier for teams to understand, adopt, and integrate with existing development workflows
• Explore new AI technologies to help accelerate the design → production process
• Imagine new possibilities in this space, and help craft the future vision for 2025 and beyond

Preferred Qualifications

• Great attention to detail, and an eye for visual craft, such as composition, typography, and layout
• A strong understanding of user-centered design principles and product strategy
• Familiarity with technical things like HTML/CSS, prototyping tools such as Origami, or advanced Figma features like Auto Layout, Variables, and Components
• Past experience designing for developers, or partnering closely with developing on complex problems
• A design/development hybrid background, or experience building websites or apps
• A history of working on canvas-based interfaces or tools that support creative workflows

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
• An annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles