Developer Advocate

Figma Figma · Enterprise · Canada +1 · Marketing

Figma is seeking a Developer Advocate to support content creation, community building, and customer engagements. This role involves writing production-quality code, building demos and tools, and influencing product direction by providing feedback from customers and the community. The advocate will also bridge the gap between design and development, operationalizing workflows related to design systems, tokens, and developer tooling.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner deeply with Sales and GTM: Join customer engagements, unblock technical teams, and support high-impact deals involving Dev Mode, design systems, and the Figma API.
  2. Own regional technical presence: Play a leading role across AMER field events, activations, and key moments, representing Figma to developer audiences.
  3. Build real things: Create production-quality demos, prototypes, and tools that reflect how modern teams actually build, not just toy examples.
  4. Create scalable technical content: Author guides, code samples, and technical narratives that help developers adopt Figma in real workflows.
  5. Influence product direction: Bring structured, high-signal feedback from customers and the community into Product. Help shape features before and after launch.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience writing production code
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • React
  • Excellent storytelling and communication skills
  • Ability to tailor complex concepts to various audiences
  • Experience working alongside designers or building tools that support design systems
  • Strong product instincts
  • Confident public speaking
  • Ability to engage large audiences
  • Ability to operate autonomously
  • Ability to work cross-functionally

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of Native languages

What the JD emphasized

  • production-quality code
  • production code
  • JavaScript/TypeScript and React