Senior Product Designer - Core Editor & AI (Remote)

Figma; New York (NY); Remote; USD 169,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, & vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan with company 5%

Parental leave & family planning

Mental health & wellness benefits

Paid time off & sick leave

Annual bonus plan (non-sales)

Equity

Job summary

Figma is seeking an experienced Product Designer to shape how teams build together within the core editor and related tools. You will push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers, turning ambitious ideas into intuitive, scalable design systems.

You will guide complex design work, including AI-enabled workflows, and mentor peers while collaborating across design, engineering, and research teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience leading complex software projects from exploration through launch and iteration.
• Portfolio of shipped work demonstrating interaction design and visual craft.
• Ability to guide decision-making with structured thinking and user research.
• Experience researching, prototyping, or building products with AI and emerging tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of core editor experiences (Auto Layout, Text, canvas interactions) from prototyping to shipping and iteration.
• Define and champion a clear vision for the editor, translating it into proposals, principles, and priorities with product and engineering partners.
• Explore direct manipulation, AI, and code integrations to enable generation, editing, and refinement while preserving creative control.
• Ground decisions in user research and product data, observing how people create to test assumptions and refine your view.
• Contribute to design org culture through critiques, mentoring, and sharing best practices across teams.

Skills

8+ years experience

Portfolio of shipped work

Structured decision making

User research & testing

AI & emerging tools

Job description

Figma is seeking an experienced Product Designer to shape how teams build together within the core editor and related tools. You will push the product forward with engineers, PMs, and researchers, turning ambitious ideas into intuitive, scalable design systems.

You will guide complex design work, including AI-enabled workflows, and mentor peers while collaborating across design, engineering, and research teams to deliver high-quality user experiences.