Designer Advocate (Berlin, Germany)

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

At Figma we are creating a community of practice where our users can connect, learn, and advance their skills through sharing with each other. Our Designer Advocates are at the core of our Figma Community — online, in written and video content, and in live interactions with our users and customers. This Designer Advocate will be a key partner to support our regional DACH sales and marketing team in helping add design credibility and product knowledge to our messaging and conversations with users and new teams looking to adopt Figma. If you love Figma and already find yourself already advocating Figma to everyone you know, reach out!

This is a full time role that can be held from our Berlin hub.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Enable Figma users at scale: Write best practice guides, build resources, and host live streams to help our users better understand how to use the tool and encourage others to share their takeaways and experiences
• Sales enablement: For key high value accounts, join sales demos to explain the product, share best practices, and answer in-depth questions.
• Motivate and empower the community: Maintain and build relationships with users in the community and find opportunities to collaborate.
• Events: Speak regularly at meetups and conferences. Support Figma community advocates leading events worldwide
• Advocate for users with the product team. Keep a pulse on community sentiment on product releases and emerging themes. Share product feedback from the community with PM & Design in an organized, detailed way. Act as trusted advisor for launches to prepare for community reaction.

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

• Figma expertise and real world experience using it within a team setting, with a technical design background and ability to get into the fine details of interface design
• Fluency in German and English language, additional fluency in Polish would be a plus
• Passion for interacting with the design communities
• Comfortable presenting to large groups/ audiences
• Knowledge of product design workflows and is well versed in design systems (in Figma and more broadly)

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

• Strong written communication, visual design and video editing skills
• An understanding of the evolving challenges of design teams at scale and how designers work with design adjacent roles
• An ambitious mentality and joy for iterating on projects from early experimental ideas through to completion
• Comfort-level with up to 25% of travel

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: 

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews 

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