Figma
Jobs, news, and who works there
As of 2026-10-28, Skillenai has indexed 161 Figma job postings over the past 90 days (up 196% vs the prior 4 weeks). Figma appeared in 245 news articles in the same window.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-10-28
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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 | 21 | 13.0% |
| Product Designer | 15 | 9.3% |
| Engineering Manager | 11 | 6.8% |
| Product Manager | 11 | 6.8% |
| Technical Program Manager | 10 | 6.2% |
| Data Scientist | 6 | 3.7% |
| Design Manager | 6 | 3.7% |
| Data Engineer | 5 | 3.1% |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 5 | 3.1% |
| Data Platform Engineer | 4 | 2.5% |
Skills in Figma job postings
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 43 | 26.7% |
| SQL | 30 | 18.6% |
| design systems | 30 | 18.6% |
| Figma | 27 | 16.8% |
| observability | 23 | 14.3% |
| TypeScript | 20 | 12.4% |
| prototyping | 19 | 11.8% |
| APIs | 17 | 10.6% |
| Snowflake | 17 | 10.6% |
| Distributed systems | 16 | 9.9% |
| Salesforce | 14 | 8.7% |
| Interaction Design | 14 | 8.7% |
| experimentation | 14 | 8.7% |
| AWS | 13 | 8.1% |
| C++ | 13 | 8.1% |
Where Figma is hiring
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 12 | 7.5% |
| San Francisco | 12 | 7.5% |
| London | 6 | 3.7% |
| India Hook | 1 | 0.6% |
| York | 1 | 0.6% |
Who works at Figma
From the career profiles Skillenai holds for current staff. Small groups are withheld.
Skills on staff profiles
- Figma50%
- FigJam10%
- user and market research10%
- SSIS10%
- Google Cloud BigQuery10%
- Workshops10%
- dashboards10%
- clinical data pipelines10%
- workflow solutions10%
- product growth10%
- Industry events10%
- Design Education10%
- Events10%
- data quality issues10%
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
245 news articles and 595 blog posts mentioned Figma in the last 90 days.
News
- Warp Sciences emerges from stealth, to apply robotics to drug researchtherobotreport.com · October 28, 2026
- 10 metrics & Grok Bot content system to grow fasternewsletter.gtmengineering.ai · October 27, 2026
- 7 AI stories from June 2, 2026: Microsoft unveils 7 MAI models at Build, GitHub Copilot SDK goes GA in 6 languages, Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations, and 4 more product launches from OpenAI, GitHub, and the White House.pondero.ai · June 3, 2026
- MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization Reaches Stable: Okta, Anthropic, and VS Code Adopt Zero-Touch OAuth for AI Connectorspondero.ai · June 20, 2026
- 9 AI stories from June 25, 2026: Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed to July, Figma ships code layers and Motion, ByteDance Seedance 2.5, GPT-4.5 retirement Saturday, Meta Arena prediction market, Conmy joins Anthropic, Fable 5 Day 13, EU AI Act 38 days out, and GPT-5.6 still unconfirmedpondero.ai · June 25, 2026
- Meta's Muse agent reaches iPad with business and retail-checkout connectorspondero.ai · October 8, 2026
Blogs
- GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stackgithub.blog · October 28, 2026
- How Alex Lee became the first engineer at Magic Patternsycombinator.com · October 28, 2026
- The 10 Best Product Management Conferences in 2027pulserevops.com · October 22, 2026
- OpenAI Expands Codex Beyond Developers With Role-Specific Pluginskeepingupwith.ai · June 3, 2026
- 🔵 Figma just put Real Code on the Design Canvasdepartmentofproduct.substack.com · October 18, 2026
- Connect your coding agent to your design systemshadcndesign.com · October 15, 2026
How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Job counts are postings whose employer resolves to Figma over the 90 days ending 2026-10-28; 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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