Senior Product Designer, Core Editor & AI

Tech Ladies®; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 169,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Figma seeks an experienced Product Designer for the Core Experience team in San Francisco. You’ll shape how editors work, drive interaction design, and push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers.

You’ll own major initiatives across the core editor, influencing how AI and code change design tools while maintaining usability and craft. You’ll collaborate across teams to translate ambiguity into clear experiences, balancing technical detail with scalable design systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product design.
• A portfolio of shipped work demonstrating interaction design and visual craft.
• Ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking and user-centered research.
• Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of core editor experiences, including Auto Layout, Text, and canvas interactions from opportunity to prototyping and iteration.
• Define and champion a clear editor vision with product and engineering partners.
• Explore how direct manipulation, AI, and code can work together to move between generating, editing, and refining work while preserving creative control.
• Ground decisions in user research, product data, and close observation of how people create.
• Contribute to design org culture by participating in critiques, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices across teams.

Skills

Product design

Portfolio

User research

AI prototyping

Tools

Code-based prototyping

Job description

Figma seeks an experienced Product Designer for the Core Experience team in San Francisco. You’ll shape how editors work, drive interaction design, and push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers.

You’ll own major initiatives across the core editor, influencing how AI and code change design tools while maintaining usability and craft. You’ll collaborate across teams to translate ambiguity into clear experiences, balancing technical detail with scalable design systems.