Figma

Strategic Finance, AI Innovation

Figma$169K — $245K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in Finance Systems or related function
  • Strong technical skills in system design, implementation, AI automation
  • Working knowledge of finance processes like O2C, P2P, FP&A
  • Excellent project management abilities to handle multiple initiatives
  • Clear communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Drive transformational projects leveraging finance and systems expertise
  • Influence AI adoption strategy for finance systems
  • Own and manage the financial planning platform (Pigment)
  • Lead the systems roadmap from prioritization to governance
  • Design a best-in-class systems architecture optimizing data flows
  • Establish partnerships to enhance data architecture and forecasting
  • Develop dashboards and visualizations for business insights
  • Promote best practices in systems controls and data governance

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits with company contributions
  • Parental leave and family planning support
  • Mental health and wellness benefits
  • Paid time off, including sick leave
  • Flexible PTO and recharge days
  • Reimbursements for cell phone and home internet
  • Lifestyle spending accounts
  • Sales incentives and annual bonus plans
Full Job Description
The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma's most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating and deploying the company's resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company.

This role requires someone who can own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma and drive outsized impact as we scale toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning. We're looking for someone who is highly analytical and strategic, a great communicator, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is comfortable with ambiguity. You'll get substantial visibility, focus on the highest-priority business issues, and be plugged into every facet of the business.

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.
What you'll do at Figma:
  • Drive the execution of transformational projects by applying their finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity
  • Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows as infrastructure to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions and execute on adoption alongside the team
  • Serve as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration
  • Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance
  • Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling with influence extending beyond Pigment and Finance data to the broader company data ecosystem
  • Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations and optimize business processes & sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling
  • Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights
  • Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks

We'd love to hear from you if you have:
  • 5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution or a related function
  • Strong technical skills with system design & implementation, AI automation, data architecture, integrations
  • Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles
  • Strong project management instincts, with ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously
  • Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
While not required, it's an added plus if you also have:
  • Proficiency with SQL
  • Data science background
  • Experience managing consultants or external resources


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

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:

$169,000-$245,000 USD

About Figma

Figma is a cloud-based design and prototyping tool for digital projects. The company was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. Figma's software is used by designers and developers to create user interfaces, websites, and mobile applications. The company has offices in San Francisco and London.
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500 employees
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Founded
2012

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