# Director, Communications

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Communications
**Salary:** $235k – $317k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Corporate Communications, Financial Communications, Pr Campaigns, Storytelling Strategy, Media Relations, Investor Relations, Executive Communication, Business Narrative Development, Thought Leadership, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Leads corporate communications strategy for a public company, reimagining storytelling across channels and audiences. Partners with executives and teams to craft compelling narratives on business and financial topics, requiring 12+ years experience building comms programs.

## Job Description

## What you'll do at Figma

- Define and drive Figma's corporate storytelling strategy end-to-end, from narrative development to execution across channels
- Move beyond traditional PR to create integrated campaigns that cut through across media, owned platforms and executive communications
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business and financial momentum into clear, compelling stories and campaigns
- Work closely with executives to shape narratives that resonate with business and financial audiences, from briefings to thought leadership
- Identify and develop breakthrough story angles that position Figma at the center of key industry and market conversations
- Build and deepen relationships with top-tier business and financial reporters across the U.S. and U.K.
- Stay close to the news cycle while proactively creating opportunities that put Figma ahead of it
- Continue to grow your scope and influence as the company scales

## We'd love to hear from you if you have

- 12+ years of experience in in-house corporate communications
- A track record of building and scaling communications programs and teams from the ground up
- Strong business and financial fluency, with the ability to translate complexity into clear, engaging narratives, and pitches
- Experience operating in fast-paced environments where direction isn't always defined—and comfort creating it
- Demonstrated experience crafting a point of view on storytelling that goes beyond conventional PR approaches

## While not required, it's an added plus if you also have

- An understanding of product design, software development and/or cloud-native applications

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