Designer Advocate - Figma (NYC or East Coast Remote)
At Figma we are creating a community of practice where our users can connect, learn, and advance their skills through sharing with each other. Our Designer Advocates are at the core of our Figma Community — online, in written and video content, and in live interactions with our users. This Designer Advocate will be a key partner to support our sales and marketing team in helping add design credibility and product knowledge to our messaging and conversations with users and new teams looking to adopt Figma. If you love Figma and already find yourself already advocating Figma to everyone you know, reach out!
This is a full time role that can be held from our NYC hub or remotely on the east coast.
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What you’ll do at Figma:
Enable Figma users at scale: Write best practice guides, create resources, and host live streams to help our users better understand how to use the tool and encourage others to share their learnings and experiences
Sales enablement: For key high value accounts, join sales demos to explain the product, share best practices, and answer in-depth questions.
Motivate and empower the community: Maintain and establish relationships with users in the community and find opportunities to collaborate.
Events: Speak regularly at meet ups and conferences. Support Figma community advocates leading events worldwide
Some projects you could work on:
Design and build new Figma workshops and guides around specific Figma themes
Work closely with a large customer to support their trial with Q&A sessions and workshops
Figma community resources that could be used to help someone get started using Figma
Livestream/video content to help share user stories and best practices with the greater community
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
Figma expertise and real world experience using it within a team
Passion for interacting the design community
Comfort speaking publicly to large groups of people
Knowledge of product design workflows and is well versed in design systems (in Figma and more broadly)
An understanding of the evolving challenges of design teams at scale and how designers work with design adjacent roles
A technical design background and ability to get into the fine details of interface design
An entrepreneurial mindset and joy for iterating on projects from early experimental ideas through to completion
Comfort-level with up to 25% of travel (post-COVID)
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.