# Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure

**Company:** [Figma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/figma)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $204k – $348k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Figma, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Design Variables, Component Libraries, Design Tooling, System Architecture, AI Workflows, Token Pipelines, Design-To-Code, Automation, Governance
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads the internal Design Systems and Design Infrastructure organization, setting strategy and quality standards while managing designers across multiple workstreams. The role requires significant design management experience, technical fluency in design systems, and experience driving adoption and organizational change at scale.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead and grow designers across Figma's internal design systems foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, governance, and adoption.
- Set the vision and quality bar for the evolution of Figma's internal design system.
- Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders on strategy, resourcing, technical direction, adoption, and execution.
- Balance system coherence with the autonomy product teams need to solve distinct problems.
- Evolve the Design Systems operating model, including governance, contribution paths, critiques and reviews, documentation, feedback loops, and adoption practices.
- Hire, coach, retain, and develop designers across multiple workstreams.
- Represent the Design Systems perspective in broader organizational decisions.

## Requirements

- 4+ years of design management experience, including direct people leadership across multiple workstreams.
- Strong track record of hiring, coaching, retaining, and developing designers.
- Technical fluency with design foundations, tokens and variables, component libraries, internal tooling, and system architecture.
- Experience applying or leading AI-enabled Design Systems workflows.
- Experience evolving an internal design system at scale and driving adoption across a sizable product organization.
- Deep, hands-on Figma expertise.
- High agency, end-to-end ownership, and experience creating clarity and momentum through organizational change.
- Experience connecting coded component systems with design libraries and design-to-code workflows.

## Nice to Have

- Experience building token pipelines and maintaining synchronization between design foundations and code.
- Experience creating internal tooling and automation for system maintenance, contribution, and adoption.
- Experience building shared platform or infrastructure services used by other teams.
- Experience leading large-scale system migrations or design-infrastructure transformations across a multi-product organization.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual base salary range: **$204,000–$348,000 USD**.
- Equity and benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; paid time off; paid sick leave; holidays; and other applicable leave benefits.
- Additional benefits may include recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, lifestyle spending accounts, and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
- Compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified consistent with applicable law.

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