Manager, Software Engineering - Interaction Design

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 Interaction Design team is responsible for creating and maintaining the runtime APIs that support rich, high fidelity interactions and animations across our product suite. Our team’s work is critical to ensuring products like Prototyping, Slides, and Smart Animate have the platform needed to empower customers to bring their designs to life in new and exciting ways. The team is also responsible for building new interaction and animation-based features. In this role, you’ll lead the team that enables engineers at Figma to easily develop the next generation of interactive Figma features and products. 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: Build and execute on a long-term roadmap to improve the platform, features, and runtimes supporting interactive and animated experiences in Figma products like Prototyping and Slides Hire, manage, support and develop a team of engineers, including staff level engineers Partner with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for teams and projects Roll up your sleeves as needed to get involved in the technical details of solving some of the most complex technical challenges at Figma Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in