Strategic Finance, Systems & AI Innovation at Figma

<div class="content-intro"><p>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!</p></div><div class="section page-centered"> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma's most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating and deploying the company's resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This role requires someone who can own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma and drive outsized impact as we scale toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning. We're looking for someone who is highly analytical and strategic, a great communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity. You'll get substantial visibility, focus on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>What you'll do at Figma:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive the execution of transformational projects by applying their finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows as infrastructure to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions and execute on adoption alongside the team</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Serve as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling with influence extending beyond Pigment and Finance data to the broader company data ecosystem</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations and optimize business processes &amp; sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>We'd love to hear from you if you have:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution or a related function</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong technical skills with system design &amp; implementation, AI automation, data architecture, integrations</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&amp;A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong project management instincts, with ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences</li> </ul> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><strong>While it's not required, it's an added plus if you have:</strong></p> <ul class="[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Proficiency with SQL</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Data science background</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience managing consultants or external resources</li> </ul> <div class="section page-centered"> <div> <div>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.</div> <div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-Remote</span></div> <div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-SC4</span></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Pay Transparency Disclosure</span></strong></p> <p>If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>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. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.&nbsp;</p> <p>Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental &amp; vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave &amp; reproductive or family planning support, mental health &amp; wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning &amp; development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.&nbsp; Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.</p></div><div class="title">Annual Base Salary Range:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$169,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$245,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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 <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf">equal opportunity workplace</a> - 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<strong>, </strong>or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.</p> <p>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 <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. 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.&nbsp;</p> <p>Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Holding interviews in an accessible location</li> <li>Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing</li> <li>Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers</li> <li>Changing the mode or format of interviews&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>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. 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