Manager, Software Engineering - AI Product

Join Figma as an Engineering Manager to lead the Developer Tools team, focusing on AI-powered products and enhancing developer offerings. This full-time role can be remote within the UK. 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.

• •Manage and support a team of product engineers focused on building and expanding Figma’s developer offerings, including Dev Mode, MCP, Code Connect, and more.
• •Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate work across product, design, engineering, and other functions.
• •Define strategy & roadmap for your team and execute on that roadmap with a high degree of autonomy, velocity, and craftsmanship.
• •Provide hands-on technical leadership to your teams and others that collaborate with your teams to ensure a cohesive product experience and the right technical abstractions.
• •Recruit, mentor, and retain high performing engineers (and help with other cross functional roles). You’ll foster a culture of innovation, collaboration and taking calculated risks.

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 job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

• •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 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 [email protected].

• •2+ years of experience managing software engineers working on products used by external users.
• •A proven track record of building AI-powered products (both as a manager and individual contributor) that are best in class in user experience.
• •Demonstrated ability to tie product and engineering work to clear business impact.
• •Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including mentoring, and growing senior engineers.
• •Strong ability to build and operate fast-moving teams that balance innovation with execution.
• •Genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging AI technologies and their application to user-facing products.

• •Experience building large scale systems using React, C++, and/or Ruby.
• •Experience building & maintaining open source software and/or libraries for developers.
• •Knowledge and experience in generative AI, RAG, the fine-tuning process and its application to creative products.