Manager, Software Engineering - Design Systems Adherence
About The Position
Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Design Systems Adherence to lead a team building workflows, tools, and quality feedback loops that help customers create design and code aligned with their design systems while working with Figma’s Agents. The role spans making guidelines, examples, and documentation useful to AI; improving agent architecture; and creating datasets, evaluators, and benchmarks to measure adherence to customer design systems. The manager will set strategy across these areas, improve adherence measurement, and turn evaluation results and customer feedback into feedback loops that raise design quality. The work aims to improve Figma’s Agent, preserve each customer’s brand and design language, and reduce drift between design and code and from defined design systems. The position leads and grows a team of 6–8 engineers, develops engineers through coaching and feedback, and establishes a culture of ownership and high-quality execution. It owns and evolves design system context, sets the technical strategy for adherence measurement, and builds benchmarking tools and dashboards that make results actionable for Figma and customers. The manager partners with Product, Design, and AI Research teams. This is a full-time position based at a US hub or remotely within the United States.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience leading and growing high-impact engineering teams, with a track record of strong impact.
- Hands-on depth in building AI assistants and evaluation systems, and using large language models and harnesses.
- Fluency with modern AI development and evaluation workflows, such as context management, dataset curation, automated evaluators, benchmarking, and regression testing.
- Strong software engineering foundation and a platform mindset, including building tools and systems other teams adopt and rely on, alongside workflows that solve customer problems.
- High quality bar for customer experience, data quality, and reliable measurement.
- Ability to set technical direction and drive cross-functional alignment in complex environments.
Nice To Haves
- Strong understanding of design systems, including components, tokens, usage guidelines, and their integration across design and code.
- Proven ability to establish evaluation and customer feedback loops to continuously improve AI products.
- Skill in benchmarking AI products across output quality, latency, and cost, and translating findings into actionable product priorities.
- Track record of developing shared evaluation tools, curated datasets, or dashboards to measure quality and prevent regressions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of 6–8 engineers responsible for Design Systems Adherence across Figma workflows.
- Coach and develop engineers through career growth, feedback, and technical leadership, building a culture of ownership and high-quality execution.
- Own and evolve design system context so guidelines, examples, documentation, and other guidance are useful and actionable to AI.
- Set the technical strategy for adherence measurement, including high-fidelity evaluation datasets, quality rubrics, evaluators, and deterministic regression checks.
- Build benchmarking tools and dashboards that help Figma and customers understand design system adherence and act on results, while tracking visual quality, latency, and cost.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and AI Research teams to achieve business impact.
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, including employer-provided paid flexible PTO for exempt employees
- Paid sick leave
- Paid holidays
- Other leave benefits as required by applicable law
- Company recharge days may be offered
- Cell phone and home internet reimbursements may be offered
- Lifestyle spending accounts may be offered
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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