Designer Advocate, Partnerships
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Qualifications
- Experience working with Figma and understanding its capabilities
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with external partners
- Passion for design and technology
Skills
- Design system knowledge
- Product design experience
- Collaboration and partnership skills
- Technical design understanding
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Equity offer
- Health, dental & vision insurance
- Roth 401(k) plan
- Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health & wellness benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
Pay
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.
Schedule
This role is based out of our San Francisco hub.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Figma is an equal opportunity employer - 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.