Full Job Description
Were looking for a Developer Advocate focused on Payload to partner closely with our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. Youll bring deep design expertise, strong product intuition, and a genuine love for the design and developer community into our go-to-market strategies. Youll also champion our users voices internally, ensuring their perspectives shape our product evolution.
This is a full-time role that can be held from our New York City or San Francisco hub, or remotely in the United States.
What youll do at Figma:
- Advocate for Payload: Promote Payload and the Payload + Figma integrations to developers inside and outside Figma.
- Empower Payload connections: Collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Experience teams to help customers unlock the full potential of Payload across real product workflows.
- Engage with the Payload community: Triage GitHub issues and community PRs, including labeling, reproducing and routing them, and working with engineering on review and prioritization.
- Create compelling content: Create technical content for Payload + Figma products: tutorials, demos, videos, starter templates and livestreams.
- Inspire community connections: Foster meaningful relationships within the Payload community, identify collaboration opportunities, and nurture user-driven initiatives.
- Speak and engage at events and in co-marketing: Regularly present at industry meetups, conferences, and community events, sharing practical insights from real-world design work.
- Champion user voices: Stay attuned to community feedback, sentiment, and emerging design trends-advocating internally to inform product decisions and improvements.
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
- Have deep, hands-on expertise with Payload and experience integrating it within real product teams.
- Are comfortable operating in evolving workflows, including CMS, DAM, design systems, and AI-assisted design or prototyping.
- Are passionate about engaging with and contributing to the design or developer community.
While its not required, its an added plus if you also have:
- An entrepreneurial mindset, with the enthusiasm and ability to transform early-stage ideas into polished, impactful outcomes
- The flexibility and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to engage with the Payload community in person
Pay Transparency Disclosure
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.
Figma offers equity to employees, as well as a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision coverage; retirement benefits with company contributions; parental leave and reproductive or family planning support; mental health and wellness benefits; and paid time off. Figma provides paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations. Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave. PTO is subject to manager approval. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts. Figma also offers sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. All compensation and benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and may be modified by Figma at any time, consistent with applicable law.
Annual Base Salary Range:
$115,000-$269,000 USD
