Product Manager, Developer Platform
- Role
- Product
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
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No BS summary
Technical Product Manager with 6+ years of PM experience on highly technical products. Must have shipped developer tools, infrastructure products, or AI-powered technical systems and be able to work with architecture/PR-level technical detail. US-only role, either remote in the United States or from US hubs.
Core skills
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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
At Figma, we're building tools that help teams design, build, and ship better products together. Figma Make enables teams to go from prompt to production code, and the Figma agent is a purpose-built design agent that edits files directly on the Figma canvas.
We're looking for deeply technical Product Managers to own the developer platform: Figma’s MCP Server, REST API, and key first-party integrations like Figma for Slack and Figma for ChatGPT/for Claude. These roles sit at the intersection of product and infrastructure. If you're excited about developer tooling, systems thinking, and building the foundations that other product teams ship on top of, this role is for you.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you'll do at Figma:
You’ll define and drive the strategy for one or more parts of our developer platform: the big bets, build-vs-buy calls, and how to sequence it all. Those areas:
- Design↔code platform: how we translate between designs in Figma’s SceneGraph to code in customers’ Makes and production codebases
- External platform: how external AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) access Figma context using our MCP Server & REST APIs, how and when Figma’s AI products appear in other surfaces (Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc.)
As you drive platform strategy, you’ll:
- Influence product roadmaps where platform capabilities create new product opportunities.
- Partner with EM and tech leads to make key architecture and UX decisions.
- Talk frequently with product teams_,_ customers, and our partners & vendors, and distill learnings from those conversations into platform commitments.
- Raise the bar for technical PMs at Figma: pattern-match across the four areas, surface cross-cutting problems, and pull peers and EMs into the calls that need them.
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- 6+ years of product management experience working on highly technical products
- Proven experience shipping developer tools, infrastructure products, or AI-powered technical systems
- Shipped measurable quality improvements to a product: you can point to the metrics that moved and how you moved them
- Hands-on technical fluency: you've built and shipped things yourself — at work, in side projects, or in open source — and you can read a PR, you can participate actively in architecture conversations
- Strong systems thinking: you understand how complex components interact and can improve the whole, not just the parts
- Technical communication: You distill highly technical concepts into clear decisions and direction
- A track record of driving strategy and execution across ambiguous, fast-moving product areas
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 Transparency Disclosure
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, as well as a 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; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$169,000 - $303,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - 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. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
What you'll do
- Define and drive strategy for one or more parts of Figma's developer platform, including big bets, build-vs-buy calls, and sequencing.
- Own strategy for the design-to-code platform: translating between designs in Figma’s SceneGraph and code in customers’ Makes and production codebases.
- Own strategy for the external platform: how external AI agents access Figma context using MCP Server and REST APIs.
- Own strategy for when and how Figma’s AI products appear in external surfaces such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.
- Influence product roadmaps where platform capabilities create new product opportunities.
- Partner with engineering managers and tech leads to make key architecture and UX decisions.
- Talk frequently with product teams, customers, partners, and vendors, and distill learnings into platform commitments.
- Raise the bar for technical PMs at Figma by pattern-matching across areas, surfacing cross-cutting problems, and pulling peers and engineering managers into key decisions.
What they require
- 6+ years of product management experience working on highly technical products.
- Proven experience shipping developer tools, infrastructure products, or AI-powered technical systems.
- Shipped measurable quality improvements to a product, with clear metrics moved and how they were moved.
- Hands-on technical fluency: built and shipped things at work, in side projects, or in open source.
- Ability to read a PR and participate actively in architecture conversations.
- Strong systems thinking: understands how complex components interact and can improve the whole, not just the parts.
- Technical communication: can distill highly technical concepts into clear decisions and direction.
- Track record of driving strategy and execution across ambiguous, fast-moving product areas.
- Candidates must keep cameras on during video interviews.
- If hired, candidates are required to attend in-person onboarding.
Benefits
- Equity for employees.
- Health coverage.
- Dental coverage.
- Vision coverage.
- Retirement benefits with company contributions.
- Parental leave.
- Reproductive or family planning support.
- Mental health and wellness benefits.
- Paid time off.
- Paid sick leave.
- Holidays.
- Other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Employer-provided paid flexible PTO for exempt employees.
- Flexible paid sick leave for exempt employees.
- Company recharge days.
- Cell phone reimbursements.
- Home internet reimbursements.
- Lifestyle spending accounts.
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
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