Figma

San Francisco

Designer Advocate, Partnerships

ON-SITE MID
Posted 13 days ago

Quick Summary

Role Overview

Figma is seeking a Designer Advocate to bridge the gap between Marketing, Sales, and Product teams while championing the user voice. This San Francisco-based role focuses on empowering partners and the design community through deep product expertise and strategic go-to-market initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and deliver certification and enablement programs for service distribution partners
  • Cultivate strategic relationships with service and tech partners to drive mutual success
  • Create written and visual content showcasing modern product development workflows
  • Represent Figma at workshops and conferences to demonstrate real-world integrations
  • Gather and share user feedback on workflows and emerging industry trends
  • Partner with internal teams to ensure user perspectives shape product evolution

Requirements Snapshot

  • Deep hands-on expertise in the Figma platform and its ecosystem
  • Strong understanding of design systems tokens and AI-assisted design
  • Excellent communication skills for presenting complex workflows to diverse audiences
  • Ability to translate technical design decisions into practical development outcomes
  • Willingness to travel up to 25 percent to engage with the design community

Expected Impact

You will play a critical role in scaling Figmas reach by empowering partners and users with the knowledge to adopt modern design practices. By bridging the gap between design and engineering, you will accelerate product adoption and ensure that community feedback directly informs Figmas long-term product strategy.

This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, see the description below.

Job Description

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
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.    

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. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. 

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a 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.  Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$153,000 - $317,000 USD

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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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.

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