Strategic Finance, Systems & AI Innovation

About Figma

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!

About the Strategic Finance Team

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.

About the Role

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 it's not required, it's an added plus if you have:

• Proficiency with SQL
• Data science background
• Experience managing consultants or external resources