Designer Advocate, Partnerships
Figma
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- Why do you want to join Figma?
- What is your experience with Figma? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
- Walk me through a design from your portfolio, from the problem to the result.
- Tell me about design feedback you disagreed with. What happened?
- How do you test a design with users before it is built?
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Practise the Designer Advocate, Partnerships at Figma interview free →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 Designer Advocate 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 community into our go-to-market strategies. You'll also champion our users' voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.
This role is based out of our San Francisco hub.
What you'll do at Figma:
- 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
We'd love to hear from you if you:
- 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
Pay Transparency Disclosure
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
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.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
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