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Posted Apr 15Technical Program Manager, AI Performance
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- 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.
- Figma seeks an AI-Native Performance TPM to own performance prevention, diagnostics, and safe rollout for both our flagship products and next-gen AI features.
- experience with performance testing (load, stress, endurance, interference), observability, and incident response.
- Flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability)
- Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry, regression prevention (performance CI), xfn performance forum, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)
- experience with load, stress, performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
- Deep familiarity with web performance (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS, WASM memory, mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler)
- Distributed systems, cloud infra (AWS), autoscaling, and capacity planning
- Hands-on prior work with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent platforms
- Experience with MLops or LLMs: inference latency tradeoffs, batching, caching, etc
- Experience with large enterprise Planning / customer load tests.
- Familiarity with real-time collaborative systems and GPU/WASM performance constraints.
- At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go.
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Experience
- 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
- Figma offers equity to employees, as well 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
- Figma’s compensation and
- Annual Base Salary Range: $185,000 — $317,000 USD
Contact
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com .
Additional details
- Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
- This platform-level role spans desktop, browser and mobile; requires deep
- You’ll partner across Product, Platform, Performance Program and Product Support.
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- This is a specialist Platform TPM owning horizontal, high-visibility performance programs that span:
- Desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native / WebView), and WASM contexts
- experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products Demonstrated
- experience: integrating performance tests into pipelines
- While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: •