Director, People Partners - Product, Design & Engineering
About The Position
Figma is growing its team and is looking for passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. 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. As Director, People Partners for Product, Design & Engineering (PDE), you'll be partnering with the leaders responsible for the teams building Figma and leading a team of highly skilled People Partners. You'll operate as a trusted advisor - coaching, challenging, and guiding the organization through rapid growth, reorganization, and change. As a member of the People team, you’ll partner closely with all of our People functions to build a best in class people function. This role is energized by ambiguity, adept at building deep relationships, and excited to shape what great People Partnering looks like at Figma.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a People Partner leader in high-growth environments, including managing a team and partnering directly with executive leaders
- A track record of supporting Product, Design, and/or Engineering organizations, with genuine fluency in how technical and design teams operate
- Strong business and technical acumen - the ability to build deep product and technical knowledge and understand how the business operates
- Demonstrated ability to challenge and advise senior leaders, influencing decisions and outcomes.
- You stay grounded and resilient, even when things move quickly
Responsibilities
- Serve as the strategic People Partner to Figma’s CTO and Chief Design Officer, building the credibility and trust to influence how they lead, organize, and grow their teams
- Lead and develop a talented team of People Partners across the Product, Design and Engineering organizations
- Lead and execute our People Programs such as org design, resource management, performance, and change management through periods of rapid scaling, reorganization, and shifting priorities
- Drive the core people cycles for your orgs across performance, calibration, talent reviews, succession planning while raising the bar on quality and consistency
- Partner across the People function and our cross functional partners to help execute the People strategy across the PDE organization
- Use data and insights to inform your point of view, measure impact, and tell a compelling story to the leaders you support
- Help shape and scale the People Partner function itself - developing partners, strengthening the operating model, and modeling what great looks like
Benefits
- equity
- health coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- retirement benefits with company contributions
- parental leave
- reproductive or family planning support
- mental health and wellness benefits
- paid time off
- paid sick leave
- holidays
- other leave benefits
- employer-provided paid flexible PTO
- flexible paid sick leave
- company recharge days
- cell phone reimbursements
- home internet reimbursements
- lifestyle spending accounts
- sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
