Joblaze summary

In the role of Developer Advocate for Payload at Figma, the individual will engage with the developer community, promote Payload integrations, and create technical content to enhance user experience. Key skills include deep expertise in Payload, familiarity with design systems, and the ability to navigate evolving workflows. This position is well-suited for someone with a strong background in design and development, ideally with experience in community engagement. Figma emphasizes a collaborative environment, making this role integral to bridging user feedback with product development.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 4, 2026. Last confirmed on Figma's careers page November 4, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$128,000).
Starts above 37% of 3520 comparable other roles in United States we track (median $128,000 across 270 companies).

Quick facts

Is the Developer Advocate, Payload role remote?: It's hybrid — Figma expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?: Figma lists $115,000–$269,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?: Figma is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Figma, Payload.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Developer Advocate, Payload role at Figma.

From the original posting

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 a vibrant community where designers and product builders come together to learn, grow, and connect around their shared passion. Our Advocacy team is central to this mission—empowering our users through engaging content, meaningful interactions, and genuine advocacy.

We're looking for a Developer Advocate focused on Payload to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You'll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design and developer community into our go-to-market strategies. You'll also champion our users' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.

This is a full-time role that can be held from our New York City or San Francisco hub, or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

Advocate for Payload: Promote Payload and the Payload + Figma integrations to developers inside and outside Figma.
Empower Payload connections: Collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Experience teams to help customers unlock the full potential of Payload across real product workflows.
Engage with the Payload community: Triage GitHub issues and community PRs, including labeling, reproducing and routing them, and working with engineering on review and prioritization.
Create compelling content: Create technical content for Payload + Figma products: tutorials, demos, videos, starter templates and livestreams.
Inspire community connections: Foster meaningful relationships within the Payload community, identify collaboration opportunities, and nurture user-driven initiatives.
Speak and engage at events and in co-marketing: Regularly present at industry meetups, conferences, and community events, sharing practical insights from real-world design work.
Champion user voices: Stay attuned to community feedback, sentiment, and emerging design trends—advocating internally to inform product decisions and improvements.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

Have deep, hands-on expertise with Payload and experience integrating it within real product teams.
Are comfortable operating in evolving workflows, including CMS, DAM, design systems, and AI-assisted design or prototyping.
Are passionate about engaging with and contributing to the design or developer community.

An entrepreneurial mindset, with the enthusiasm and ability to transform early-stage ideas into polished, impactful outcomes
The flexibility and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to engage with the Payload community in person

Pay Transparency Disclosure

Annual Base Salary Range:

$115,000—$269,000 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.

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Developer Advocate, Payload

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