Creative Director, Brand Experience

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! 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! We’re looking for a Creative Director to lead creative for Brand Experiential, the team behind how Figma shows up in the real world. That starts with Config, our biggest moment of the year, and extends to the activations, partnerships, and community moments where people meet Figma face to face. You’ll set the creative vision for each of them and lead a small but mighty team in making them real. You’ll lead, manage, and grow a team of designers, balancing hands-on creative direction with the craft instincts to jump in when the work calls for it. You care as much about how an idea is pitched and shaped in its earliest form as you do about how it lands in its final execution. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional creative leadership across Brand, Marketing, and Product to keep our brand distinct, expressive, and unmistakably Figma — balancing experimentation and surprise with clarity, intentionality, and strong system thinking. 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: Manage and grow a team of 2–5 designers, hiring to fill gaps as your portion of the portfolio scales Partner with cross-functional creative leadership, product designers, and marketers to improve team process and execution, and coach your team through setting creative direction and priorities Develop a strong point of view on how Figma's brand shows up in your area and successfully advocate for it across the organization Run and improve team rituals like critiques, reviews, and creative sprints Stay in the work — balancing people leadership with hands-on creative direction and execution Set and maintain a high creative bar through feedback, direction, and coaching We’d love to hear from you if: 3+ years of creative/design management experience with a track record of building strong, resilient team culture and developing designers across skill levels A proven track record of moving fluidly between pitching a concept, sketching it out, and shepherding it to final execution A strong portfolio demonstrating conceptual and visual direction for events/activations Experience influencing teams and stakeholders through strategic thinking, storytelling, and clear communication A true player/coach mindset — as comfortable managing and developing people as you are getting hands-on with the work yourself Comfort with ambiguity, thriving in fast-moving environments where priorities can shift quickly While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Familiarity with AI-powered creative tools and workflows, and a point of view on how they expand rather than flatten creative expression The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing a sense of humor and a proactive, solution-oriented approach Comfort exploring new methodologies and continuously pushing to improve both personal and team craft At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hi