Manager, Product - Code (London, United Kingdom)

Figma
London, United Kingdom
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for mid-level product leaders who manage cross-functional teams in developer tools and AI, with a focus on enterprise workflows and technical ambiguity. Requires deep technical expertise and strategic ownership of bidirectional design-code synchronization systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 3+ years managing PMs and experience shipping developer tools/AI products
    — “3+ years of experience managing Product Managers, with a proven track record of hiring, calibrating, and developing talent
  • Individuals who have navigated technical ambiguity while setting product strategy
    — “A track record of setting strategy and executing on major initiatives in environments with deep technical and product ambiguity
  • Professionals with enterprise customer workflow analysis and productization experience
    — “Experience working with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and turn that into shipped product

Things to consider

  • Full-time commitment required with mandatory in-person onboarding
    — “This is a full-time role... required to attend in person onboarding
  • Camera-on requirement for video interviews despite remote flexibility
    — “require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews

How to stand out

  • Highlight end-to-end ownership of design-code workflows in resume
    — “Own Design to Code and Code to Design workflows end to end
  • Demonstrate technical credibility in engineering reviews and model behavior evaluation
    — “owned annotation pipelines, and made real ship/no-ship calls on model behavior
  • Emphasize team-building experience with specific PM development outcomes
    — “manage and develop three Product Managers, hire the team's open Product Manager role
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • setting vision and strategy for Figma's Code area
  • managing and developing product managers
Typical background
3+ years of experience managing product managers

Skills & requirements

Required

Product ManagementTeam LeadershipCross-functional Collaboration

Preferred

AI TechnologyDesign To Code Workflows

Stack & domain

Product ManagementDeveloper ToolsAI ProductsEngineeringDesignDataResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCode

About the role

Original posting from Figma via Greenhouse

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 tools that help teams design, build, and ship better products together. Figma Make enables teams to go from prompt to production code, and the Figma agent is a purpose-built design agent that edits files directly on the Figma canvas.

We're looking for a deeply technical product leader to lead the four teams responsible for Figma's Code area: Code Context, Design to Code, Code to Design, and Code Platform. You'll manage and grow a team of Product Managers while partnering closely with engineering, design, data, and research leaders.

This team builds the products and platform capabilities that help design and code move fluently together. You'll set the strategy for improving connecting customer codebases to Figma.

This is a full-time role that can be held from our London hub or remotely within the UK.

What you'll do at Figma:

Lead the product aspects of the four teams driving Figma's Code area - Code Context, Design to Code and Code to Design, and Code Platform

Set vision, strategy, and goals for how design and code stay in sync at Figma

Own Design to Code and Code to Design workflows end to end, including quality measurement, improvement, and discoverability

Guide the development of the code-context systems and translation primitives that power agentic workflows and round-tripping between design and code

Manage and develop three Product Managers, hire the team's open Product Manager role, and establish a high bar for product management craft

Partner with leaders across engineering, design, data, and research to make technical product decisions and serve needs across Figma's product suite

Establish a strong operating cadence across the area and own adoption goals for MCP and Design to Code/Code to Design workflows

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

3+ years of experience managing Product Managers, with a proven track record of hiring, calibrating, and developing talent

Deep experience shipping developer tools and AI products - has run evals, owned annotation pipelines, and made real ship/no-ship calls on model behavior

A track record of setting strategy and executing on major initiatives in environments with deep technical and product ambiguity - and rallying an org around a bold, unproven bet

Experience working with enterprise customers to understand their workflows and turn that into shipped product

Excellent cross-functional collaboration and written communication with technical depth; credible in engineering reviews and with senior stakeholders

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.

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.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

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 

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

Source: Figma careers (Greenhouse)

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