Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

We're looking for a Design Manager to lead Figma's internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure as the company transforms and expands. This is a rare opportunity to become the steward of the system behind how Figma designs and builds Figma: the foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and shared infrastructure that help our teams create with quality and coherence at scale. The work will shape every Figma product and, through them, the experience of millions of people.

What it asks for · 5

• 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
• Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
• Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
• Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational change
• Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows

Also a plus

• Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and code
• Creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption
• A track record of building shared platform or infrastructure services that other teams depend on
• Leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization

What the job covers

• Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
• Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
• Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
• Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
• Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
• Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• design21×
• system14×
• product8×
• internal7×
• foundations6×
• adoption5×
• design systems5×
• experience5×
• designers4×
• infrastructure4×
• internal design4×
• coherence3×
• component libraries3×
• creating3×
• evolves3×
• foundations tokens3×

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