Figma
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$153k-$296kDetected 5 days ago
CI/CDFigmaDesign SystemsProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementSalesCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world.
- This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery and readiness assessments for customer deployments, including repo/environment setup, permissions, configuration needs, and potential adoption blockers
- Provide hands-on implementation support for Make Local and related developer-facing workflows, including setup guidance, debugging, escalation triage, and recommendations on technical implementation patterns
- Create reusable deployment assets such as technical troubleshooting guides, readiness checklists, account intake templates, implementation playbooks, and customer-facing enablement materials
- Help define how Figma should measure success for forward deployed engineering engagements, including time to first workflow, setup success, adoption, active usage, customer feedback, and support effort
- Contribute to the operating model for Figma's Forward Deployed Engineering function, helping determine where FDE support is most valuable, how engagements should be scoped, and how the function should scale
- Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to life-whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI.
- If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
- At Figma we celebrate and support our differences.
- Strong familiarity with developer, design, collaboration, or AI products, particularly those that connect design and engineering workflows
- Solid understanding of modern engineering practices, including frontend development, design systems, component libraries, CI/CD pipelines, monorepos, and Dev Infrastructure
Requirements
- Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Software Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Technical Consultant, Sales Engineer, Developer Advocate, or similar
- Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including source control, local development environments, deployment workflows, debugging, and build tooling
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences across cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous environments by creating scalable processes, collaborating across teams, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and modern developer workflows
- Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
Nice to have
- Ability to translate customer insights and deployment trends into product strategy, documentation, roadmap recommendations, and engineering priorities
Compensation
- $152,800 - $296,000 USD
- If based in Figma's San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
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Company info
- Partner directly with strategic customers to understand their technical goals, workflows, codebase environments, and implementation constraints
- Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.
- Forward Deployed Engineers at Figma sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and our most strategic customers.
- In this role, you'll work hands-on with customers adopting emerging Figma developer workflows, starting with Make Local, to understand their technical environments, unblock implementation, and translate real-world deployment patterns into product and engineering insights.
- You'll partner closely with Customer Experience, Solutions Consulting, Sales, Product, and Engineering to help customers get to value faster while shaping how Figma builds and scales a new Forward Deployed Engineering motion.
- Proven success partnering with enterprise customers on implementation, onboarding, migrations, technical enablement, and product adoption
Equal opportunity
- If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com.
- equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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 cha
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