Manager, Recruiting

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Recruiting Manager you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals supporting multiple business functions across our Corporate Functions. 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.

What it asks for · 6

• 10+ years of recruiting experience in a similar competitive environment with 4+ years of people management experience
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives
• Managed hiring across multiple business units and levels up to Senior Director
• Experience and understanding of how to build a recruiting function to scale with hyper-growth
• Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution, bias disruption, organizational design relative to team, engagement/retention strategy and strong performance management.
• A deep passion for and understanding of diversity, belonging, and inclusion

Also a plus

• Experience leading recruiting for functions like Finance, Legal, People, Talent and Marketing

What the job covers

• Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiters and sourcers
• Act as a trusted partner to Business Leaders to understand needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals
• Partner with recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy that continues to bring in exceptional talent to Figma
• Build a team structure that optimizes for efficiency and scale
• Assess and improve upon recruiting best practices across all Corporate Functions teams
• Take ownership for complex change initiatives to achieve business results
• Champion our values-led culture

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• recruiting11×
• business6×
• experience6×
• functions5×
• leaders5×
• design4×
• scale4×
• develop3×
• partner3×
• achieve2×
• belonging2×
• bring2×
• build2×
• corporate functions2×
• create2×
• culture2×

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