Designer Advocate, Partnerships

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Designer Advocate to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You'll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design community into our go-to-market strategies. You'll also champion our users' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.

What it asks for · 5

• Demonstrate deep, hands-on expertise in Figma, with experience embedding the platform within product teams and taking ideas from early exploration through to polished, high-impact outcomes
• Apply a strong understanding of modern product design workflows and development environments, including building, managing, and leveraging design systems, design tokens, and AI-assisted design or prototyping while partnering closely with engineers and cross-functional teams
• Communicate complex design workflows and systems with clarity and confidence, delivering compelling presentations and effectively engaging audiences of all sizes
• Translate technical design decisions into practical development outcomes, ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering teams
• Champion the design community by actively building relationships, contributing to industry conversations, and representing the organization through travel of up to 25% as needed

What the job covers

• Build, evolve, and deliver certification programs, and scalable enablement programs for Figma's service distribution partners to help them successfully adopt, position, and leverage Figma best practices
• Cultivate trusted relationships with strategic service, distribution, and tech partners, collaborating closely to identify opportunities, share best practices, and drive mutual success
• Develop written, visual, and video content that showcases modern product development workflows, demonstrates Figma's integrations and ecosystem, and equips partners to educate and inspire their customers
• Represent Figma at partner events, workshops, conferences, and customer engagements, highlighting real-world workflows, integrations, and success stories that accelerate adoption
• Gather insights from users and partners including feedback on workflows, integrations, and emerging trends

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• design13×
• product7×
• partners6×
• workflows6×
• closely3×
• development3×
• ideas3×
• bring2×
• building2×
• champion2×
• collaboration2×
• customer2×
• deep2×
• demonstrate2×
• design community2×
• design workflows2×

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