Technical Recruiter - Leadership

We are so excited to grow our Talent team! We’re looking to hire an experienced Technical Recruiter to join our Leadership Recruiting team and drive the next phase of Figma’s engineering growth. Engineering leaders are some of our most critical hires here at Figma, and this role will be a key strategic partner in helping to identify, evaluate and close high potential leadership talent. As a Technical Recruiter, you’ll operate in a full-lifecycle capacity supporting top of funnel strategy to negotiating and closing engineering talent. This role will allow you to build positive relationships, exude our values, and contribute to our org-wide recruiting best practices and processes.

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 full-cycle recruiting processes for a variety of engineering leadership roles

• Partner with engineering leaders to develop top of funnel strategies for key leadership roles

• Own and iterate on our interview processes and approach to successfully evaluate + excite engineering leaders

• Craft thoughtful candidate outreach messaging to engage passive engineering talent

• Develop a deep understanding of Figma’s business and products, and communicate them effectively with candidates

• Act as a direct extension of our engineering team and primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach through the offer stage, ensuring an excellent candidate experience

• Take a highly organized approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics

• Effectively lead and contribute to cross-functional team projects

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

• 6+ years of full-lifecycle technical recruiting experience in a high volume environment

• 2+ years of experience full-lifecycle recruiting experience on technical leadership roles (Manager and above)

• Demonstrated success in sourcing your own pipelines and developing top of funnel strategy

• Deep experience and knowledge of engineering communities, and the bleeding-edge technical trends

• A track record of managing a healthy volume of candidates with a high rate of responsiveness and care to both internal stakeholders and candidates

• Demonstrated success partnering with Engineering Leadership to navigate complex offer situations and overcome candidate objections

• Demonstrated success in hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup

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

• Used Figma’s products! 

• A team player attitude with the value of “Lift your team” to learn and grow together with your recruiting colleagues.

• Experience using Gem

• Heart for belonging and inclusion

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.