Technical Recruiter, Data Science at Figma

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 expanding our recruiting team to help bring on exceptional data scientists, machine-learning experts, research scientists, analysts, and technical leaders who will impact every corner of the business. We’re looking for a recruiter who is passionate about finding, engaging, and closing world-class data science talent — someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment and loves building strong partnerships with hiring managers.

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

Own full-cycle recruiting for science & data engineering roles, managing everything from sourcing strategy to closing for both IC & Manager roles

Partner directly with leaders to understand hiring needs and build effective search strategies

Create compelling, personalized outreach to engage passive candidates across data and research communities, in particular at senior and staff levels

Build and maintain healthy, forward-looking pipelines for high-priority and evergreen roles

Provide an exceptional, consistent candidate experience throughout the interview process

Influence and refine interview loops, evaluation rubrics, and hiring processes to ensure they are fair, efficient, and aligned with Figma’s values

Communicate market insights, pipeline data, and recruiting trends to cross-functional partners

Collaborate closely with other recruiters and recruiting ops to continuously improve team workflows, systems, and experimentation

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

5+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, with at least 2+ years focused on data/applied-science or ML/AI hiring

Proven track record of independently sourcing, engaging, and closing candidates in competitive technical markets

Deep familiarity with the data-science and applied-research ecosystem — tools, skill sets, communities, and evaluation approaches

Experience partnering with cross-functional leaders and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder hiring processes

Strong communication and storytelling skills—particularly in explaining role impact, team vision, and product context

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

Prior experience hiring technical talent in a high-growth environment

Knowledge of ATS/CRM tools like Greenhouse, Gem, or equivalent

Experience hiring analytics, research-science or hybrid data/engineering profiles

Familiarity with Figma or similar design and collaboration platforms

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the , we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$102,000—$210,000 USD

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

Holding interviews in an accessible location

Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing

Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers

Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Technical Recruiter, Data Science

Job Description

What you’ll do at Figma:

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: