Director, Business Recruiting

Figma • Full-time • Hybrid in San Francisco, California, United States • 10h ago

Fast Facts

Figma is seeking a Director of Business Recruiting to lead and mentor a global team of recruiting professionals, focusing on strategic hiring practices to support the company's growth and culture.

Responsibilities: The role includes managing and developing recruitment teams, partnering with executives to align recruiting strategies, improving best practices, and championing the company's values-led culture.

Skills: Candidates should possess over 10 years of recruiting experience, including 6 years in management, with expertise in driving recruiting strategies across business functions and a passion for diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in hyper-growth environments and a solid understanding of building recruitment functions.

Location: This position can be based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY, within the United States.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $150,000 - $250,000.

We’re hiring a senior leader to oversee Figma’s business recruiting functions, globally.

As a Recruiting Director you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals (both ICs and Managers) supporting multiple business functions across Figma internationally. We are seeking a strategic leader who can set longer term goals and objectives to support the business and partner with our hiring leaders to execute best in class recruiting practices, create belonging, and scale our winning culture. Figma’s continued future success relies heavily on the ability to scale - this is an opportunity to manage a hyper engaged, high performing team, and take our business through the next exciting phase of growth and beyond.

What you’ll do at Figma:

Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiting managers, recruiters and sourcers
Act as a trusted partner to VP and C-suite leaders to understand business needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals
Partner with other recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy globally with a goal of continuing to bring in exceptional talent to Figma
Scale a team structure that optimizes for efficiency and scale
Build and improve upon recruiting best practices across all orgs
Take ownership for complex change initiatives to achieve business results
Champion our values led culture

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

10+ years of recruiting experience in a similar competitive environment, at least 6+ years of people management experience with direct experience managing leaders
Experience partnering with Sales/GTM, G&A, Legal and other Business leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives
Experience and understanding of how to build a recruiting function to scale with hyper-growth
A deep passion and understanding for diversity, 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.