Manager – Recruiting - Engineering

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!

As a Manager, Recruiting - Engineering you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals supporting multiple business functions across our Engineering Functions. 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.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States. 

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiters and sourcers
• Act as a trusted partner to Engineering Leaders to understand needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals
• Partner with recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy that continues to bring in exceptional talent to Figma
• Build a team structure that optimizes for efficiency and scale
• Assess and improve upon recruiting best practices across all Engineering Functions teams
• Own complex change initiatives across Engineering recruiting, such as process redesigns and team restructures, to achieve measurable hiring outcomes
• 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 with 4+ years of people management experience
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives
• Experience leading Engineering recruiting teams
• Demonstrated experience managing hiring across multiple business units
• Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution, bias disruption, organizational design relative to team, engagement/retention strategy and strong performance management.
• A deep passion for and understanding of diversity, belonging, and inclusion

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 [email protected]. 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.

Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:

• Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
• Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.

Once the applicable days has passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.