Product Designer, CMS

About the role

Figma is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders to shape the future of design and collaboration. This role is for a product designer who will work on the Content Management Systems team, partnering with engineering to shape platform capabilities and technical infrastructure that support CMS and open-source initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship end-to-end experiences that help organize, manage, and deliver content across Figma's products
• Partner closely with engineering to shape platform capabilities and technical infrastructure that support CMS and open-source initiatives
• Translate technically complex systems into intuitive, elegant user experiences
• Prototype early and often to explore ideas, validate concepts, and communicate nuanced interaction and technical decisions
• Contribute to product strategy and long-term vision by bringing together customer insights, product thinking, and technical understanding
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and designers throughout the product development process
• Help raise the quality bar across the organization through thoughtful feedback, design critiques, and mentorship

Requirements

• Exceptional product design craft with strong visual and interaction skills, especially in complex software where systems thinking matters as much as any individual screen — with a proven ability to simplify technically complex systems into intuitive, thoughtful user experiences
• Code is part of your design process, not something you wait to hand off. You build working prototypes to explore interaction ideas, understand technical possibilities, and communicate a direction
• Demonstrated ability to move fast, forming a point of view, testing it, and adjusting course without waiting for complete information
• Ability to define a clear product and design vision in ambiguous spaces, using customer insights, qualitative research, and product data to guide decisions
• Track record of independently driving design from discovery through launch, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
• Naturally curious about how software is built, with strong cross-functional partnerships across design, engineering, product management, and research — raising the quality of work through thoughtful collaboration, feedback, and a deep care for the workflows of designers, developers, and other creative makers

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping software through coding, AI-assisted development, or other technical approaches
• Background designing content management systems, asset management platforms, or foundational platform products
• Familiarity designing developer tools, APIs, SDKs, or other highly technical product experiences
• Contributions to or designing for open-source software

Skills

• Systems thinking
• Prototyping
• Storytelling
• Craftsmanship
• Curiosity for complex systems
• Appetite for technical challenges

Benefits

• Competitive salary range: $169,000—$303,000 USD
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Roth 401(k) with company contributions
• Paid parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
• Paid time off
• Company recharge days
• Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
• Lifestyle spending accounts
• Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
• Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles

Pay

Annual Base Salary Range: $169,000—$303,000 USD

Schedule

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Application Instructions

We encourage you to apply if you are excited about this role, even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.