Is the Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure role remote?

Yes — Figma lists this as a fully remote position.

What's the salary range?

Figma lists $204,000–$348,000 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Figma.

What seniority level is this role?

Figma targets lead candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure role at Figma.

Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure at Figma

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Design Manager at Figma will oversee the development and evolution of the company's internal Design Systems and Infrastructure, ensuring that design processes are coherent and scalable. The position requires a strong background in design management, technical fluency with design foundations, and experience in leading cross-functional teams through complex transformations. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in building and maintaining design systems at scale, along with deep expertise in Figma's tools. This senior leadership position is pivotal as Figma continues to expand its product offerings and enhance collaboration across teams.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 15, 2026. Last confirmed on Figma's careers page October 9, 2026.
Salary band is above the typical range for Design roles (median ~$169,500).
Starts above 88% of 16 comparable lead design roles in United States we track (median $180,000 across 13 companies).
Figma appears in 26.5% of 34 comparable lead design roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure role remote?: Yes — Figma lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?: Figma lists $204,000–$348,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 4 years of relevant experience for this Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Figma.
What seniority level is this role?: Figma targets lead candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure 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!

We're looking for a Design Manager to lead Figma's internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure as the company transforms and expands. This is a rare opportunity to become the steward of the system behind how Figma designs and builds Figma: the foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, tooling, governance, and shared infrastructure that help our teams create with quality and coherence at scale. The work will shape every Figma product and, through them, the experience of millions of people.

This is a senior people leadership role with meaningful scope. You'll lead designers across multiple Design work streams, set direction through a complex transformation, and partner deeply with Design, Product, and Engineering to turn strong foundations into greater quality, speed, and leverage across Figma. If you believe the best systems create coherence without limiting the autonomy teams need to do exceptional work, this is the role 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:

Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal Design Systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption
Set an ambitious vision and quality bar for how Figma's internal design system evolves, translating the company's transformation into coherent, durable foundations for the product suite
Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution across a complex organization
Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous, cross-functional work, balancing system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems well
Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices
Hire, coach, retain, and develop an exceptional team, helping designers grow their craft, judgment, and leadership across multiple workstreams
Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions and ensure Figma's design infrastructure evolves with its expanding product suite

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

4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams and a strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers
Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture, plus direct experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows
Experience evolving an internal design system at scale, earning trust across a sizable product organization, and leading the change required to drive meaningful adoption
Deep, hands-on Figma expertise, high agency, end-to-end ownership, and a track record of creating clarity and momentum through organizational change
Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

Building token pipelines and maintaining reliable synchronization between design foundations and code
Creating internal tooling and automation that improves system maintenance, contribution, and adoption
A track record of building shared platform or infrastructure services that other teams depend on
Leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization

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

Annual Base Salary Range:

$204,000—$348,000 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.

Standard company text repeated across Figma's postings is omitted here.

Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

What you’ll do at Figma:

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

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

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