About this role
About the Role Figma is seeking a Designer Advocate to partner closely with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You’ll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design community to our go-to-market strategies, while championing our users’ voices internally. This role is based in our San Francisco hub and may require travel up to 25%. 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. What We're Looking For
- Demonstrate 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.
- Apply a 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.
- Communicate complex design workflows and systems with clarity and confidence, delivering compelling presentations and effectively engaging audiences of all sizes.
- 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.