Product Designer, Core Experience

Job description

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 technically-minded product designers who are excited to shape how teams build together. At Figma, design isn’t just how something looks—it’s how it works, how it feels, and how it scales. Our designers are systems thinkers, prototypers, storytellers, and craftspeople who care deeply about quality and collaboration. In this role, you’ll turn ambiguity into clarity, push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers, and help us invent new ways for people to design and build products together. The Core Experience team shapes how people create in Figma—from foundational tools like Auto Layout and Text to the interactions that make working on the canvas feel intuitive and precise. We’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to lead major efforts across the core editor and help define how it evolves as AI and code change the way people build products. You’ll bring a strong point of view, deep interaction design craft, and curiosity about complex systems. Working closely with engineering, product, research, and designers across Figma, you’ll set direction and stay hands-on, turning ambitious ideas into experiences people use every day. With an eye for simplicity and craft, curiosity for complex systems, and an appetite for technical challenges, you can help define the future of how software is made. 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 the design of core editor experiences, including foundational concepts like Auto Layout, Text, and canvas interactions, from identifying opportunities through prototyping, shipping, and iteration • Help us define and champion a clear vision for how the editor should evolve, translating that vision into concrete proposals, design principles, and priorities with product and engineering partners • Explore how direct manipulation, AI, and code can work together, prototyping ways for people to move between generating, editing, and refining their work while retaining creative control • Ground decisions in user research, product data, and close observation of how people create, using that evidence to test assumptions and refine your point of view • Contribute to our design org’s culture by participating in design critiques, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices across teams We'd love to hear from you if you have: • 8+ years of experience in product design, including leading complex software projects from early exploration through launch and iteration • A portfolio of shipped work demonstrating interaction design and visual craft, including examples of making sophisticated workflows easier to understand and use • The ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking, clearly articulated rationale, and user-centered research • A knack for figuring out ambiguous problems in complex systems, and shaping them into simple solutions with clear goals • Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI and other emerging tools to uncover new patterns for creativity and collaboration While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: • Experience designing creative tools, editors, canvas interfaces, or other products with rich, direct manipulation interactions • A design/development hybrid background, or experience building websites or apps • A history of working on canvas-based interfaces or tools that support creative workflows • Experience with code-based prototyping, front-end development, or workflows that connect design and implementation 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 d