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Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure
Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design, and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!
The mission of the Engineering TPM team is to drive Figma’s most important cross-company engineering efforts, and we are looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with our Infrastructure team. The TPM provides oversight of the most important efforts that require coordinated technical execution across the Org to succeed. This is a new role focused on enabling Figma’s infrastructure teams to scale, improve performance, and deliver on critical projects. These large-scale efforts will involve collaboration across numerous backend, infrastructure, and security teams & cross-functional stakeholders, prioritization, decision-making, tracking execution & driving operational excellence. We’re looking for someone that can work in a TPM greenspace environment and is passionate about people, technology, and program management. Progress over process is our mantra.
This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What You'll Do at Figma
- Lead the execution, coordination, and risk management of Figma’s infrastructure projects, ensuring seamless integration with minimal performance impact.
- Drive key infrastructure initiatives, including reliability, storage, distributed systems, and cloud-native performance improvements.
- Partner closely with engineering, security, compliance, and legal teams to ensure alignment.
- Track program milestones and ensure seamless delivery across multiple infrastructure teams, including data, caching, observability, and security engineering.
- Provide regular updates to executive leadership, external partners, and internal teams on the status of infrastructure programs, including risks, blockers, and dependencies.
- Develop and drive best practices in infrastructure program management, improving visibility into progress, risks, and technical dependencies.
- Facilitate large-scale testing and rollout strategies for critical infrastructure changes to minimize downtime and ensure high system reliability.
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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 anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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.
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