Director, Technical Recruit (Archived) | VirtualInterview.ai

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 hiring a senior leader to oversee Figma's Product, Design and Engineering recruiting functions.

As a Director of Recruiting you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals (both ICs and Managers) supporting Product, Design and Engineering across Figma. 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 you’ll do at Figma:

Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiting managers, recruiters and sourcers

Act as a trusted partner to VP and C-suite leaders to understand business needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals

Partner with other recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy globally with a goal of continuing to bring in exceptional talent to Figma

Scale a team structure that optimizes for efficiency and scale

Build and improve upon recruiting best practices across all orgs

Take ownership for complex change initiatives to achieve business results

Champion our values led culture

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

10+ years of recruiting experience in a similar competitive environment, at least 6+ years of people management experience with direct experience managing other recruiting leaders

Experience partnering with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives

Experience and understanding of how to build a recruiting function to scale with hyper-growth

A deep passion and understanding for diversity, belonging, and inclusion

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:

$228,000—$308,000 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.

Director, Technical Recruiting

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