design
Posted 3 hours agoProduct Designer, CMS
at Figma
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design and ship end-to-end experiences that help organize, manage, and deliver content across Figma's products, as part of the Content Management Systems team
- Prototype early and often to explore ideas, validate concepts, and communicate nuanced interaction and technical decisions
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and designers throughout the product development process
- Track record of independently driving design from discovery through launch, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
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.
- At Figma, design isn't just how something looks—it's how it works, how it feels, and how it scales.
- You'll prototype, build, and ship alongside engineers while helping define foundational experiences that support millions of creators across Figma.
- Exceptional product design craft with strong visual and interaction skills, especially in complex software where systems thinking matters as much as any individual screen — with a proven ability to simplify technically complex systems into intuitive, thoughtful user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to move fast, forming a point of view, testing it, and adjusting course without waiting for complete information
- Experience building and shipping software through coding, AI-assisted development, or other technical approaches
- Familiarity designing developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or other highly technical product experiences
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Benefits
- Contribute to product strategy and long-term vision by bringing together customer insights, product thinking, and technical understanding
- Ability to define a clear product and design vision in ambiguous spaces, using customer insights, qualitative research, and product data to guide decisions
- Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual
- Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement
- benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off.
- Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave
- requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations.
- Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave.
- benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts.
- Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- All compensation and
- Annual Base Salary Range: $169,000 — $303,000 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!
- We're looking for product designers who are excited to shape how teams build together.
- Our designers are systems thinkers, prototypers, storytellers, and craftspeople who care deeply about quality and collaboration.
- In this role, you'll turn ambiguity into clarity, push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers, and help us invent new ways for people to design and build products together.
- With an eye for simplicity and craft, curiosity for complex systems, and an appetite for technical challenges, you can help define the future of how software is made.
- This is a unique opportunity for a designer who loves both craft and technical depth.
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- Partner closely with engineering to shape platform capabilities and technical infrastructure that support CMS and open-source initiatives
- Translate technically complex systems into intuitive, elegant user experiences