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Overview
Join Figma as a Higher Education Community & Partnerships Manager to drive institutional growth across universities and bootcamps, enhancing design education accessibility. 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.
What you'll do
- •Build and grow an educator community: identify, engage, and cultivate a network of educators at top university and bootcamp programs who are bringing Figma into their classrooms and giving them the resources and recognition to go deeper.
- •Drive curriculum integration: identify high-impact courses and partner with educators on teaching resources, assignments, and course packs that make Figma the easiest tool to teach with.
- •Partner with university technology centers: work with campus tech centers to make sure every incoming student knows about Figma's free education program from day one.
- •Cultivate institutional relationships: build close ties with program deans, department chairs, and leadership at the world's leading design schools programs.
- •Lay the foundation for institutional growth: do early work that positions Figma to partner with universities at an institutional level and help define what that path looks like.
- •Create compelling professor programming: design and launch events, resources, and community activations that give professors genuine reasons to champion Figma in their courses and recommend it to colleagues.
- •Partner with the broader Figma EDU team: work closely across the team to make sure our institutional work and our student programs are pulling in the same direction.
- •Measure success through data: track adoption, engagement, and relationship depth across institutional partnerships to understand what's working and iterate accordingly.
Conditions
- •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.
- •Annual Base Salary Range: $105,000 — $221,000 USD.
While it's not required, it's an added plus if you also have
- •Experience as an educator or working directly within a university setting.
- •Familiarity with design education, HCI programs, or creative disciplines.
- •Experience working at a high-growth tech company or startup.
- •Background in community building and education marketing.
- •Familiarity with sales or business development in an institutional or academic context.