Director, Design - Communication Tools

We’re seeking an experienced Design Leader to oversee pillar-wide initiatives across a few areas involving the tools we build for a broader audience beyond professional designers (including: FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Buzz, and more).

In this role, you’ll tackle strategic challenges, from building new products to evolving and scaling existing ones—all while empowering your teams to deliver ambitious, high-quality work. The work you’ll do will redefine Figma’s product suite, core audiences, and future as a business, solving problems across our product portfolio.

As a Design leader at Figma, you’ll lead a team of world-class designers, with the opportunity to expand this group as the scope and impact of our work evolves. In this deeply cross-functional role, you’ll collaborate with product management, engineering, research, marketing, and other teams to shape both product and business strategy in our next chapter.

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:

• Manage and hire a group of world-class designers


• Partner with Product and Engineering leads in this area to improve team processes and execution and coach individual teams through setting roadmap and strategy


• Develop a perspective on your team’s product areas and successfully advocate for it across the organization


• Run and improve team processes like critiques and sprints


• Advance your own skills at people management in a supportive and growth-oriented environment


• We want you to be in the work; this means both managing people, and helping oversee strategy and execution

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

• 5+ years of design management experience, ideally including managing managers


• A proven track record of collaboration with cross-functional teams to solve complex design challenges


• Clear hands-on expertise with Figma’s tools, and a strong ability to mentor and guide design teams.


• Experience influencing teams through strategic thinking and communication


• Depth in the latest AI developments and modern tooling


• Help lead teams with resilience and guide through ambiguity

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

• Experience working on early stage or zero-to-one projects, and seeing them through into unambiguous market fit


• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a sense of humor and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.


• Comfort exploring and experimenting with new methodologies and continuously seeking to improve both personal and team performance.

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.