Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

Overview

Design Manager to lead Figma’s internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure, shaping the foundations that support how Figma designs and builds products.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow designers across internal design systems, including foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, and governance.
• Set vision and quality standards for how Figma’s internal design system evolves.
• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution.
• Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous cross-functional work while balancing system coherence with team autonomy.
• Evolve the design systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques/reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices.
• Hire, coach, retain, and develop a team across multiple design workstreams.
• Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure related infrastructure evolves with product expansion.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of design management experience with direct people leadership across multiple workstreams.
• Track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers.
• Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture.
• Direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled design systems workflows.
• Experience evolving an internal design system at scale and driving meaningful adoption.
• Deep hands-on Figma expertise with end-to-end ownership and change leadership.
• Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows.

Details

• Full time role based in the United States; can be held from a US hub or remotely in the US.
• Required to keep cameras on during video interviews.
• If hired, required to attend in-person onboarding.