Director, Safety & Physical Security

Figma • San Francisco, CA

2h • Onsite

About The Position

Figma is growing our team of 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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
We’re looking for a Director of Safety & Physical Security to lead and scale our approach to keeping Figmates, offices, and physical assets safe. This role leads physical safety and security strategy and operations across Figma, from offices and events to incident response and executive support, while partnering closely with Workplace, IT, Legal, People, and executive leadership.
As Figma continues to grow and operate in increasingly complex environments, this role ensures our approach to physical safety scales with the company and remains thoughtful, risk-based, and trusted.
This senior leadership role is for someone who brings strong judgment, knows how to build and mature security programs in fast-moving organizations, and is equally comfortable setting strategy and stepping in when situations require hands-on leadership.
This is a full time role that can be held from our San Francisco Hub.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security, risk management, or safety operations, including 5+ years leading and scaling organizational programs and teams
• Proven track record building and operating company-wide physical safety and security programs in fast-growing, distributed, multi-region environments
• Deep expertise in modern physical threat landscapes, with strong judgment in crisis management and the ability to translate risk into clear, executive-level priorities
• Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders and partnering cross-functionally with IT, Workplace, Legal, People, and executive leadership
• Strategic, systems-oriented leader and confident communicator who builds high-performing teams and effectively represents security with executives, regulators, auditors, and customers

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with overlapping cyber/physical risk and partnership with InfoSec teams
• Bilingual in Spanish, Hebrew or Portuguese

Responsibilities

• Own and lead Figma’s physical safety and security strategy, ensuring consistent standards while adapting to local risks and regulations
• Build, scale, and operate physical security programs across offices, events, and travel
• Lead incident response for critical safety and security events, including threat assessment, crisis management, and post-incident review
• Own and evolve the executive protection program, including risk assessments, travel security, event support, and coordination with internal and external partners
• Assess and manage the physical threat landscape, including workplace violence, protests, travel risk, natural disasters, and executive risk
• Partner closely with Workplace, IT, Legal, People, and Executive teams to align security priorities with business needs
• Establish clear risk-based policies, decision frameworks, and escalation paths
• Develop and lead a high-performing security team, manage external vendors, and communicate clearly with senior leaders during both steady-state operations and incidents

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed