Director, Technical Recruiting

Figma • San Francisco, CA

4h

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 hiring a senior leader to oversee Figma's Product, Design and Engineering recruiting functions.
As a Director of Recruiting you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals (both ICs and Managers) supporting Product, Design and Engineering across Figma. We are seeking a strategic leader who can set longer term goals and objectives to support the business and partner with our hiring leaders to execute best in class recruiting practices, create belonging, and scale our winning culture. Figma’s continued future success relies heavily on the ability to scale - this is an opportunity to manage a hyper engaged, high performing team, and take our business through the next exciting phase of growth and beyond.

Requirements

• 10+ years of recruiting experience in a similar competitive environment, at least 6+ years of people management experience with direct experience managing other recruiting leaders
• Experience partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives
• Experience and understanding of how to build a recruiting function to scale with hyper-growth
• A deep passion and understanding for diversity, belonging, and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiting managers, recruiters and sourcers
• Act as a trusted partner to VP and C-suite leaders to understand business needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals
• Partner with other recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy globally with a goal of continuing to bring in exceptional talent to Figma
• Scale a team structure that optimizes for efficiency and scale
• Build and improve upon recruiting best practices across all orgs
• Take ownership for complex change initiatives to achieve business results
• Champion our values led culture

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