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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!
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. The role requires 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.
We are currently hiring for a few roles across our Strategic Finance team.
- Go-To-Market: This role will focus on our International Sales business. This will involve:
- Owning the Sales ARR forecast for non-AMER regions
- Partnering with Sales & Sales Ops leadership to develop business insights
- Building & scaling operating rhythms (eg. deal desk)
- R&D: this role will focus on Product, Design, & Engineering headcount and expense. This will involve:
- Owning our R&D & core cloud infrastructure expense forecasts
- Leading the R&D org headcount planning process by partnering with leaders across R&D, mapping resourcing to growth opportunities & investment
- Providing R&D leaders with Budget Variance Analysis on headcount & expense and guiding the quarterly/annual budgeting process
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Develop cross-functional partnerships with Leadership across the company to review investment opportunities, growth levers, and align on a resourcing model
- Drive culture of performance management with real time dashboards, KPIs, and insights into emerging trends
- Build annual operating plans, quarterly and monthly financial forecasts (including headcount and expense), and ongoing analysis of performance and investment to highlight trends, opportunities, and causes of unexpected variances
- Prepare and deliver presentations for the Executive Team, including the CFO, CRO, and CMO
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- 3+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, private equity, Strategic Finance, Business Operations, or related fields
- Demonstrated ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and develop concrete action plans
- Experience in financial planning, modeling and creating data-driven analysis
- Experience problem-solving independently, prioritizing workload, and completing tasks on time
- Experience building relationships and communicating with stakeholders across all levels and functions
- Experience delivering compelling presentations and memos to educate your audience on the business and drive them to take action
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- Experience at a high growth B2B SaaS business, with bonus points for self-serve models
- Experience partnering with General & Administrative organizations
- Experience managing corporate consolidations for headcount or expense
- Experience with SQL
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.
Pay Transparency Disclosure 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. 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.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. 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.
Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$136,000—$288,000 USD
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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