Figma
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-12, Skillenai has indexed 129 Figma job postings over the past 90 days (down 19% vs the prior 4 weeks). Figma appeared in 232 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-12
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Hiring at Figma
Weekly Figma job postings — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles Figma is hiring for
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 24 | 18.6% |
| Product Designer | 10 | 7.8% |
| Product Manager | 10 | 7.8% |
| Technical Program Manager | 8 | 6.2% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 5 | 3.9% |
| Design Manager | 4 | 3.1% |
| Marketing Engineer | 4 | 3.1% |
| Software Engineering Manager | 4 | 3.1% |
| Data Scientist | 3 | 2.3% |
| Program Manager | 3 | 2.3% |
Skills in Figma job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 35 | 27.1% |
| SQL | 28 | 21.7% |
| Figma | 25 | 19.4% |
| design systems | 24 | 18.6% |
| TypeScript | 23 | 17.8% |
| Ruby | 17 | 13.2% |
| Snowflake | 15 | 11.6% |
| Salesforce | 14 | 10.9% |
| Go | 14 | 10.9% |
| Distributed systems | 14 | 10.9% |
| C++ | 13 | 10.1% |
| forecasting | 12 | 9.3% |
| observability | 12 | 9.3% |
| experimentation | 11 | 8.5% |
| APIs | 11 | 8.5% |
Where Figma is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 14 | 10.9% |
| San Francisco | 10 | 7.8% |
| Tel Aviv | 4 | 3.1% |
| London | 3 | 2.3% |
| Singapore | 2 | 1.6% |
| York | 1 | 0.8% |
Who works at Figma
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Figma56%
- Events22%
- user and market research11%
- SSIS11%
- Resources11%
- Google Cloud BigQuery11%
- Workshops11%
- FigJam11%
- dashboards11%
- clinical data pipelines11%
- workflow solutions11%
- Industry events11%
- design workshops11%
- data quality issues11%
Share of observed positions at Figma that list the skill.
Degree level
- Bachelor3
- Master2
Field of study
- Cognitive Science and Design Innovation1
- Computer Science1
- Data Science1
- Statistics1
Schools
- University of California, Berkeley3
- University of Southern California2
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2
- The Ohio State University1
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México1
- University of California, Davis1
- Francis Lewis High School1
- University of Minnesota Duluth1
Figma in the news
232 news articles and 651 blog posts mentioned Figma in the last 90 days.
News
- Las 7 mejores alternativas a Profound en 2026blog.hubspot.es · August 25, 2026
- 17 Tech Executives Reveal How AI Agents Are Changing Hiring Decisionswhatsthebigdata.com · October 10, 2026
- Tech Leaders Warn Mid-Career Workers Could Be Caught in AI’s Job Shiftwhatsthebigdata.com · October 10, 2026
- How to: Grok Bot & Clay (+700 use case library)newsletter.gtmengineering.ai · October 9, 2026
- Figma’s Agent Is Turning the Design System Into Softwaredesignwhine.com · October 8, 2026
- Meta launches dedicated iPad app for Muse AI assistanttechbriefly.com · October 8, 2026
Blogs
- What Is WebAssembly? A Practical Introductiondevopsness.com · August 20, 2026
- WebAssembly Use Cases: Where Wasm Actually Shines in 2026devopsness.com · August 21, 2026
- The UX Field Survives on Leaders Who Hire Juniors To Learn AIaiforux.substack.com · September 22, 2026
- Jev, Opus 5.5 / Sol-Luna price war, Gemini 4, DHH pencils down, and Anthropic founder controljournal.daniellopes.dev · September 26, 2026
- Free AI Tools and Credits for Students in 2026perkstack.co · June 14, 2026
- Student Developer Tools in 2026: Every Free Pack and Creditperkstack.co · July 6, 2026
How this was computed
Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Figma over the 90 days ending 2026-10-12; mentions are news and blog documents that resolve to the same entity. Career-profile aggregates come from the Skillenai talent graph with the same suppression the talent-graph API applies.
- note
- Observed profiles counts the career profiles Skillenai holds at this company, not its employee count.
- source
- Skillenai jobs, news and blog indices; Skillenai career-profile corpus
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