Researcher, Core Product Strategy

Overview

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 Figma Research team is hiring a top-tier researcher to support our core product, Figma Design, and actively develop and execute research to drive scale, tap new opportunities, and ensure Figma continues pushing innovation in design and production tooling. Because Figma Design is used by so many of the top tier software companies around the world, you will be uniquely positioned to advance the state of how product development works across the entire industry.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

• Help Figma grow and innovate by delivering strategic research and recommendations and materially influencing the vision and strategy for Figma Design
• Partner closely with product leaders to find opportunities, generate strategy, and define success
• Break down complex business challenges into clear research plans; lead the end to end research process and demonstrate strong storytelling skills to deliver significant impact to Figma s businesses
• Harness your product mindset and storytelling chops to influence product roadmap
• Advocate for the role of Research as a strategic partner in the business process

• 7+ years of experience in UX research or user insights at a high growth B2B SaaS company
• Expertise in applying a variety of research methodologies, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques, to address product challenges spanning from opportunity identification, concept testing, to feature iterations
• Shown success in identifying assumptions that underpin key challenges, prioritizing the most critical assumptions, and creating right sized research approaches to test those critical assumptions
• A proven track record of gaining consensus from executive team members and cross disciplinary partners, going beyond mere research mechanics and findings to articulate a larger user story, and the  so what  to inspire action
• Experience conducting research on AI-powered features or working on teams exploring AI applications

• 2+ years in product design, user centric product management, product development, and/or front end engineering
• A familiarity and depth of experience using Figma s products

Pay transparency:
Annual base salary range for this role is listed below for candidates based in Figma s San Francisco or New York hub offices. The pay range may be localized for remote roles based on location. Job level and compensation are determined by factors including qualifications, interview performance, location, and market demands. The listed range is a guideline and may be modified.

For roles available remotely, the pay range is localized by location.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub): $164,000 — $243,000 USD

Figma offers equity and a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive/family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work-from-home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Sales incentive pay applies for most sales roles; an annual bonus plan applies to eligible non-sales roles.

Compensation and benefits are subject to change.

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