Designer Advocate, Federal

Figma Figma · Enterprise · Canada +1 · Marketing

Figma is seeking a Designer Advocate focused on the public sector, particularly in regulated environments. This role involves empowering users, creating content, inspiring community connections, speaking at events, and championing user voices internally. The ideal candidate has deep Figma expertise, understands modern product development workflows, and has experience in regulated design and development environments. While AI is mentioned as a tool within Figma's platform, the core of this role is advocacy, community building, and product enablement, not direct AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Empower users at scale: Collaborate closely with Sales and Customer Experience teams to enable federal, state, and local government customers to unlock the full potential of Figma in regulated environments
  2. Create compelling content: Develop engaging written and video resources tailored to governmental needs, including guidance on design systems, collaboration, and modern delivery practices
  3. Inspire community connections: Build meaningful relationships across the Figma community with a focus on public sector, govtech, and civic design practitioners, identifying opportunities for collaboration and shared learning
  4. Speak and engage at events: Represent Figma at relevant industry events, conferences, briefings, and Figma community programs, sharing practical, real-world insights
  5. Champion user voices: Surface feedback, constraints, and emerging needs from government and regulated customers, advocating internally to inform product direction, prioritization, and improvements

Skills

Required

  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Figma
  • Integrating Figma into diverse, large-scale, and regulated design and development environments
  • Strong understanding of modern product development workflows
  • Experience building, managing, or operating design systems at scale
  • Technical fluency and sharp design judgment
  • Confidence presenting to audiences ranging from small stakeholders to large industry groups
  • Empathy for public sector designers and developers
  • Entrepreneurial mindset to navigate ambiguity, experiment, travel extensively (25%+), and turn ideas into impact

Nice to have

  • Experience in govtech or civic spaces

What the JD emphasized

  • regulated environments
  • regulated design and development environments
  • regulated customers