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The Strategic Program Manager for Contingent Workforce at Figma designs and implements comprehensive systems to support a flexible and compliant workforce, collaborating with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and enhance the experience for both contingent workers and managers.
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!
As Figma continues to grow, so does the talented community of folks who help us build, support, and scale our products. Our contingent workforce plays an important part in that mission—and we’re ready to uplevel how we partner with and support this part of our team. The Strategic Program Manager for Contingent Workforce will design and run the systems, processes, and strategies that empower Figmates and contingent partners alike to do their best work. You’ll work across People, Legal, Finance, Security, and teams all across Figma to craft a thoughtful, flexible, and compliant workforce ecosystem. This role is perfect for someone who loves solving complex puzzles, building clarity in ambiguity, and designing programs that scale with heart.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.
What you’ll do at Figma:
Build and own Figma’s global contingent workforce strategy—creating frameworks, rituals, and ways of working that help us scale thoughtfully and compliantly
Partner across the company to make onboarding, offboarding, and everything-in-between smoother, clearer, and more delightful for contingent workers and managers
Craft and maintain guidelines, policies, and resources that bring clarity (and a little fun) to a traditionally complex space
Collaborate closely with Legal, People Ops, Finance, and Security to reduce friction, manage risk, and ensure our approach is future-ready
Develop metrics and dashboards that help teams understand program health, spend, and opportunities to level up
Roll out change-management programs that help leaders navigate when and how to effectively engage contingent talent
Evaluate and partner with external vendors, MSPs, and technologies to make our contingent workforce experience scalable and lovable
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on workforce planning, vendor strategy, and organizational design—helping us build teams that support Figma’s next chapter of growth
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
10+ years of experience building or running contingent workforce programs in fast-growing or complex organizations
Deep knowledge of worker classification, global compliance, and contingent workforce best practices
A track record of leading large, cross-functional programs with senior partners across People, Legal, Finance, and more
Experience building scalable processes, governance models, and operational systems from the ground up
Strong analytical and storytelling skills—you use data to inform decisions, spark conversation, and drive alignment
While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
Experience building or partnering with MSP models and/or modern VMS tools
Background in organizational design, workforce planning, or consulting
Experience scaling programs across multiple regions and navigating global regulations
A systems mindset and a passion for designing programs that blend structure, empathy, and great user experience
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
If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, 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:$149,000—$260,000 USDAt 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.
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Source: Figma careers (Greenhouse)