Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

Figma is a collaborative design platform that helps teams bring ideas to life and work together in real time. The Design Manager will lead and grow designers responsible for internal design systems and infrastructure, set strategic direction, evolve governance and tooling, and partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders to drive quality, speed, and adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
• Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
• Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
• Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
• Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
• Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite

Requirements:

• 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
• Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
• Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
• Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational change
• Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows
• Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and code
• Creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption
• A track record of building shared platform or infrastructure services that other teams depend on
• Leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization