Researcher, Core Product Strategy
What You'll Do at Figma
Help Figma grow and innovate by delivering strategic research and recommendations and materially influencing the vision and strategy for Figma Design.
Partner closely with product leaders to find opportunities, generate strategy, and define success.
Break down complex business challenges into clear research plans; lead the end to end research process and demonstrate strong storytelling skills to deliver significant impact to Figma’s businesses.
Harness your product mindset and storytelling chops to influence product roadmap.
Advocate for the role of Research as a strategic partner in the business process.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in UX research or user insights at a high growth B2B SaaS company
- Expertise in applying a variety of research methodologies, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques, to address product challenges spanning from opportunity identification, concept testing, to feature iterations
- Shown success in identifying assumptions that underpin key challenges, prioritizing the most critical assumptions, and creating right sized research approaches to test those critical assumptions
- A proven track record of gaining consensus from executive team members and cross-disciplinary partners, going beyond mere research mechanics and findings to articulate a larger user story, and the "so what" to inspire action
- Experience conducting research on AI-powered features or working on teams exploring AI applications
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years in product design, user-centric product management, product development, and/or front-end engineering
- A familiarity and depth of experience using Figma's products
Pay, Benefits & Schedule
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.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$169,000 - $250,000 USD
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.