Director, Software Engineering - Growth (San Francisco)

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Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figmas platform helps teams bring ideas to lifewhether 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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
As the Director of Engineering, Growth at Figma, you will lead a cross-functional organization focused on accelerating Figmas business across the entire customer journeyfrom first touch to enterprise expansion. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone excited to scale product-led and enterprise growth strategies, build infrastructure to support fast experimentation, and shape the companys next stage of growth.
Youll partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and Sales to build an engineering organization thats obsessed with learning, experimentation, and delivering customer value at scale.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What youll do at Figma:

• Build and lead a multi-team organization responsible for the user journey through acquisition, activation, upgrades, expansion as well as platform teams that support these teams and cross functional partners like growth-platform, marketing tech platform
• Set strategic direction and ensure alignment with company-wide priorities
• Scale teams through recruiting, org design, and mentorship of engineering leaders and ICs
• Champion a strong engineering culture rooted in inclusivity, velocity, and technical excellence
• Drive measurable outcomes through experimentation, analytics, and customer insights
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to identify new growth vectors and ensure platform leverage
• Figma is committed to building an inclusive and diverse team and culture. We expect all of our leaders to play a role in helping to build and drive these initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs in partnership with teams across all of Figma
  

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including at least 2 years of experience managing senior managers and scaling multi-team orgs
• Deep experience in product-led growth, growth experimentation, and analytics
• Proven track record of building systems that support personalization, targeting, or A/B testing at scale
• Ability to partner deeply with Product, Design, Marketing, and Go-To-Market functions
• Passion for building inclusive teams that deliver customer impact and iterate quickly
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in cross-functional settings
  

While not required, its an added plus if you also have:

• Experience supporting sales-assisted or enterprise monetization flows
• Familiarity with marketing infrastructure, data pipelines, and growth tooling
• Successful track record of launching and growing new product offerings
• Experience in global growth or international expansion
  

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
If based in Figmas 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 qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. 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. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
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 roles. Figmas compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$316,000$381,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews
  

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

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  Full-time

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  Engineering and Information Technology

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  Design Services

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