Technical Recruiter - Data Science

We’re expanding our recruiting team to help bring on exceptional data scientists, machine-learning experts, research scientists, analysts, and technical leaders who will impact every corner of the business. We’re looking for a recruiter who is passionate about finding, engaging, and closing world-class data science talent — someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment and loves building strong partnerships with hiring managers.

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:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for science & data engineering roles, managing everything from sourcing strategy to closing for both IC & Manager roles

• Partner directly with leaders to understand hiring needs and build effective search strategies

• Create compelling, personalized outreach to engage passive candidates across data and research communities, in particular at senior and staff levels

• Build and maintain healthy, forward-looking pipelines for high-priority and evergreen roles

• Provide an exceptional, consistent candidate experience throughout the interview process

• Influence and refine interview loops, evaluation rubrics, and hiring processes to ensure they are fair, efficient, and aligned with Figma’s values

• Communicate market insights, pipeline data, and recruiting trends to cross-functional partners

• Collaborate closely with other recruiters and recruiting ops to continuously improve team workflows, systems, and experimentation

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

• 4+ years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience, with at least 2+ years focused on data/applied-science or ML/AI hiring

• Proven track record of independently sourcing, engaging, and closing candidates in competitive technical markets

• Deep familiarity with the data-science and applied-research ecosystem — tools, skill sets, communities, and evaluation approaches

• Experience partnering with cross-functional leaders and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder hiring processes

• Strong communication and storytelling skills—particularly in explaining role impact, team vision, and product context

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Prior experience hiring technical talent in a high-growth environment

• Knowledge of ATS/CRM tools like Greenhouse, Gem, or equivalent

• Experience hiring analytics, research-science or hybrid data/engineering profiles

• Familiarity with Figma or similar design and collaboration platforms

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 (SF/NY Hub):

$102,000—$210,000 USD