Product Designer, CMS

Figma is looking for a Product Designer to join its Content Management Systems team and help shape how people organize, manage and deliver content across Figma's products.

This isn't a role centered on producing polished screens and handing them over to engineering.

Figma wants a designer who is comfortable getting closer to the technology itself: prototyping early, exploring ideas through code, understanding technical constraints and working alongside engineers to turn complex systems into experiences that feel simple.

The position can be based at one of Figma's US hubs or remotely within the United States, with an annual base salary range of $169,000–$303,000.

Designing the systems behind the experience

You'll work on foundational content-management capabilities used across Figma's product ecosystem.

That means tackling problems where the underlying system can be technically complicated while the experience presented to users still needs to feel intuitive.

You'll partner closely with engineering to influence both the user experience and the platform capabilities that make it possible.

Your work will include:

• Designing end-to-end content management experiences across Figma products.
• Exploring how content can be organized, managed and delivered at scale.
• Working with engineers on platform capabilities and technical infrastructure.
• Translating complex systems into understandable user experiences.
• Prototyping concepts early to test interaction ideas and technical possibilities.
• Taking designs from discovery through launch.
• Combining customer insights, research and product thinking to influence strategy.
• Collaborating with Product, Engineering, Research and Design.
• Contributing to Figma's longer-term product and design vision.
• Participating in critiques and helping raise the quality of design across the organization.
• Mentoring and providing thoughtful feedback to other designers.

Code isn't something you simply hand off to engineering

One of the most interesting requirements is Figma's expectation that code forms part of the designer's own process.

Working prototypes can help you investigate an interaction, discover what's technically possible and communicate ideas that would be difficult to explain through static mockups alone.

Figma is particularly interested in designers who are curious about how software is actually built.

Experience shipping software through coding, AI-assisted development or other technical approaches isn't mandatory, but it's explicitly considered an advantage.

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What Figma is looking for

You'll need at least 4 years of experience designing UX and UI for software products with comparable complexity.

Strong visual craft matters, but Figma is placing just as much emphasis on interaction design and systems thinking.

You should be able to take a complicated technical environment and determine what users actually need to understand, removing unnecessary complexity without oversimplifying the underlying problem.

Figma is looking for someone with:

• Strong product design craft across UX and UI.
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills.
• Experience designing complex software products.
• Strong systems thinking.
• Experience building functional prototypes as part of the design process.
• The ability to independently drive work from discovery through launch.
• Confidence working when requirements aren't completely defined.
• Experience balancing user needs, business objectives and technical constraints.
• The ability to use research, customer insights and product data to guide decisions.
• Strong partnerships with engineers, PMs, researchers and other designers.

Can you create clarity before everything is known?

Figma also wants someone comfortable working with ambiguity.

You won't necessarily receive a perfectly defined problem and then execute against it.

You'll be expected to develop a point of view, prototype possible solutions, test your assumptions and change direction as new information emerges.

That requires both speed and judgment: knowing when there's enough information to move forward rather than waiting until every uncertainty has disappeared.

Experience that could make you stand out

Several backgrounds aren't required but could be particularly valuable:

• Designing content management systems.
• Working on digital asset management platforms.
• Designing foundational platform products.
• Developer tools.
• APIs and SDKs.
• Open-source software.
• Building and shipping software yourself.
• AI-assisted software development.

Experience designing workflows for developers, designers or other creative professionals could also translate particularly well to Figma's product environment.

Salary and benefits

Figma lists an annual US base salary range of:

$169,000–$303,000 USD

Final compensation depends on factors including experience, qualifications, expected impact, role scope and location.

Figma also offers equity and a broader benefits package that can include health, dental and vision coverage, retirement contributions, parental and family-planning support, mental-health and wellness benefits and paid time off.

Additional benefits may include company recharge days, home internet and phone reimbursements, lifestyle spending accounts and an annual bonus for eligible non-sales employees.

Help define how the next generation of software gets built

This role sits at an interesting intersection of product design, complex systems and software development.

Figma isn't looking for a designer who treats engineering as what happens after the design is finished.

They're looking for someone who can explore the problem alongside engineers, prototype technically ambitious ideas and help determine how foundational systems should work before turning that complexity into something millions of creators can use.

For a Product Designer who enjoys understanding what's underneath the interface as much as the interface itself, this could be a particularly strong opportunity.