Manager, Software Engineering - Interaction Design

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.

About the role

The Interaction Design team is responsible for creating and maintaining the runtime APIs that support rich, high fidelity interactions and animations across our product suite. Our team’s work is critical to ensuring products like Prototyping, Slides, and Smart Animate have the platform needed to empower customers to bring their designs to life in new and exciting ways. The team is also responsible for building new interaction and animation-based features. In this role, you’ll lead the team that enables engineers at Figma to easily develop the next generation of interactive Figma features and products. This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to improve the platform, features, and runtimes supporting interactive and animated experiences in Figma products like Prototyping and Slides
• Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers, including staff level engineers
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects
• Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of solving some of the most complex technical challenges at Figma
• Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
• Grow your career in an engaged and creative engineering community
• Play a role in helping to build and drive inclusive and diverse team and culture initiatives through hiring, community events, and other programs

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading a high output engineering team
• 5+ years of engineering experience working on complex systems with an emphasis on performance, reliability, quality, and extensibility
• Demonstrated leadership skills in building a high-performing and highly engaged engineering team; including a proven track record of motivating, mentoring, and guiding senior engineers
• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal product and development teams to build systems that solve their needs

Nice to have

• Experience building performant animation and interaction frameworks, tooling, and foundations
• Deep knowledge of runtime environments and how they operate, including game, application, or browser engines
• Experience with creative coding frameworks used for building interaction, animation, and time-based media experiences

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

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. Figma offers equity to employees.

Annual Base Salary Range: $258,000—$376,000 USD

Benefits

• Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement benefits with company contributions
• Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off, including paid sick leave, holidays, and flexible PTO (subject to manager approval)
• Company recharge days
• Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
• Lifestyle spending accounts
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles