Designer Advocate, Partnerships

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 looking for a Designer Advocate to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You'll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design community into our go-to-market strategies. You'll also champion our users' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution. This role is based out of our San Francisco hub. What you'll do at Figma: · Build, evolve, and deliver certification programs, and scalable enablement programs for Figma's service distribution partners to help them successfully adopt, position, and leverage Figma best practices · Cultivate trusted relationships with strategic service, distribution, and tech partners, collaborating closely to identify opportunities, share best practices, and drive mutual success · Develop written, visual, and video content that showcases modern product development workflows, demonstrates Figma's integrations and ecosystem, and equips partners to educate and inspire their customers · Represent Figma at partner events, workshops, conferences, and customer engagements, highlighting real-world workflows, integrations, and success stories that accelerate adoption · Gather insights from users and partners including feedback on workflows, integrations, and emerging trends We'd love to hear from you if you: · Demonstrate deep, hands-on expertise in Figma, with experience embedding the platform within product teams and taking ideas from early exploration through to polished, high-impact outcomes · Apply a strong understanding of modern product design workflows and development environments, including building, managing, and leveraging design systems, design tokens, and AI-assisted design or prototyping while partnering closely with engineers and cross-functional teams · Communicate complex design workflows and systems with clarity and confidence, delivering compelling presentations and effectively engaging audiences of all sizes · Translate technical design decisions into practical development outcomes, ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering teams · Champion the design community by actively building relationships, contributing to industry conversations, and representing the organization through travel of up to 25% as needed 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. $153,000—$317,000 USD 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.