People Partner, Engineering (London, United Kingdom)

Figma; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design platform is seeking a People Partner to support managers and individual contributors within their Product, Design, and Engineering teams primarily in the UK and Israel. This full-time role, based in London, offers the chance to shape a dynamic HR environment in a rapidly growing company. The ideal candidate will have extensive HR experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced setting while promoting positive company culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of total People Partner or HRBP experience.
• Curiosity and strong business acumen.
• Willingness to travel, mainly to the US HQ and Israel.

Responsibilities

• Support managers and individual contributors within Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
• Guide on all things people across the organization.
• Lead and support cross-functional projects aligned with company goals.

Skills

People Partner or HRBP Experience

Performance Management

Talent Development

Coaching

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Job description

People Partner, Engineering (London, United Kingdom)

London, England; Tel Aviv, Israel

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!

As a member of the Regional People Partner team, you’ll be a key partner in helping the largest function at Figma thrive during a dynamic and high growth phase. You’ll leverage your extraordinary skills in communication, program management, and execution to build and deliver on thoughtful experiences for Figmates within the Product, Design and Engineering organizations in EMEA. This role reports into the Manager, People Partners - International, and will work in close partnership with the Tech People Partner team in the US, providing holistic end to end People Partner support.

If you’re excited about taking your general experience within the human resources discipline and looking to deepen your people partnership craft, then this might be the role for you!

This is a full time role that can be held from our London or Tel Aviv office on a hybrid basis.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• As a People Partner, you will play a key role in supporting managers and individual contributors within our Product, Design and Engineering teams across EMEA (mainly in the UK and Israel).
• Seen as a go-to partner and trusted advisor, offering guidance on all things people.
• Work collaboratively with other People Partners to provide consistent and cohesive execution of HR programs such as performance management processes calibrations, promotions, and performance improvement, compensation planning, experience surveys, and organizational health initiatives.
• Help navigate change by leading and supporting cross-functional projects that align with broader company goals, ensuring smooth transitions and clear communication.
• Stellar attention to detail and highly organized, especially on People processes and programs such as internal mobility, performance reviews and calibrations, and experience survey action planning.
• Ability to consolidate, analyze, and influence through people data and reporting.
• Partner closely with the larger People Partner, Belonging Equity & Impact, Employee Relations, Recruiting, Benefits, and People Operations functions to build equitable processes and solutions that scale.
• Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments, bringing structure to ambiguity, adapting quickly and always following through.
• Bolster our company culture in all interactions by modeling and instilling our values and promoting a culture of healthy communication.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 5+ years of total People Partner or HRBP Experience
• Experience across a multitude of HR competencies, including: performance management, talent development, coaching, compensation, operations, compliance, and program development
• Experience building relationships and communicating with stakeholders across all levels and functions
• Curiosity and business acumen
• Willingness to travel (mainly to our US HQ and Israel)

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience partnering with a technical client group (e.g., Product and/or Engineering)
• Prior experience working with the Israel market

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 anyways. 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [e-mail] . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice .

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