Designer Advocate, Federal
$153k - $317k USD
Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
At Figma, we’re building a vibrant community where designers come together to learn, grow, and connect around their shared passion. Our Advocacy team is central to this mission—empowering our users through engaging content, meaningful interactions, and genuine advocacy.
This Advocate would focus on supporting public sector organizations as they modernize how they design, build, and collaborate, partnering closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. You’ll bring deep design expertise, authentic storytelling, and a genuine love for the design community into our go‑to‑market strategies, while championing our users’ voices internally to help shape product evolution.
This role is available remotely in the Washington, DC Metro Area, and reports directly to the Advocacy Manager.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Empower users at scale: Collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Experience teams to enable federal, state, and local government customers to unlock the full potential of Figma in regulated environments
- Create compelling content: Develop engaging written and video resources tailored to governmental needs, including guidance on design systems, collaboration, and modern delivery practices
- Inspire community connections: Build meaningful relationships across the Figma community with a focus on public sector, govtech, and civic design practitioners, identifying opportunities for collaboration and shared learning
- Speak and engage at events: Represent Figma at relevant industry events, conferences, briefings, and Figma community programs, sharing practical, real-world insights
- Champion user voices: Surface feedback, constraints, and emerging needs from government and regulated customers, advocating internally to inform product direction, prioritization, and improvements
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Figma, including integrating it into diverse, large-scale, and regulated design and development environments
- Strong understanding of modern product development workflows, with experience building, managing, or operating design systems at scale
- Technical fluency and sharp design judgment, with a clear point of view on how design translates into production-ready systems
- Passion for engaging with the design community—especially in govtech or civic spaces—and confidence presenting to audiences ranging from small stakeholders to large industry groups
- Empathy for public sector designers and developers, paired with an entrepreneurial mindset to navigate ambiguity, experiment, travel extensively (25%+), and turn ideas into impact
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.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
This role has the annual base salary range stated below.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$153,000—$317,000 USD
At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
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- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews
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