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. 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
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
- 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
- Ability to communicate complex design workflows and systems with clarity and confidence, delivering compelling presentations and effectively engaging audiences of all sizes
- Ability to 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
Pay
If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, the annual base salary range is $153,000 - $317,000 USD. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including individual qualifications, market demands, and specific work location. Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits. For roles that can be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range.
Benefits
- Health, dental & vision
- Retirement with company contribution
- Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health & wellness benefits
- Generous PTO and company recharge days
- Learning & development stipend
- Work from home stipend
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles