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Overview
Join Figma as an Engineering Manager for the Payload team, leading the evolution of their open-source CMS and application framework. Drive technical investments and foster a culture of collaboration and excellence. 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! The Payload team is building the future of content infrastructure at Figma. Payload is Figma’s open-source CMS and application framework, enabling developers and organizations to create websites, digital products, internal tools, asset management systems, and content-driven experiences at scale.
What you’ll do at Figma
- •Lead the engineering team behind all of Payload
- •Develop and execute on a strategy to leverage Payload to accelerate Figma’s suite of offerings
- •Engage directly with open-source community members, contributors, and enterprise customers to understand their needs, gather feedback, and help translate insights into product and engineering priorities
- •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
- •Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers through hiring, mentorship, performance management, and career development, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence
- •Partner closely with the product and technical leaders of Payload to align team priorities, support roadmap execution, and ensure engineering investments are focused on the highest-impact opportunities
At Figma, we offer
- •Equity to employees
- •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
- •Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
- •Pay Transparency Disclosure: Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000 — $376,000 USD
We'd love to hear from you if you have
- •3+ years of experience leading and developing software engineering teams within a technical product company
- •Strong technical background building modern web applications and platforms using technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, or similar frameworks
- •Experience building or leading teams responsible for developer platforms, application frameworks, or other highly extensible software systems
- •Excellent product and technical judgment, with experience shaping developer-facing APIs and collaborating closely with design teams to deliver intuitive user experiences
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have
- •Hands-on knowledge of CMS systems, particularly Payload and its ecosystem
- •A track record of contributing to, maintaining, or leading teams behind open-source projects, with a strong grasp of community-driven product development
- •A background in supporting enterprise customers and balancing the needs of large organizations with broader community priorities
- •Comfort working with AI-assisted development workflows, agentic coding tools, or developer productivity platforms