Manager, SEO

at Figma

CA • New York, NY • United States, San Francisco, United States

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

The Manager, SEO will be the architect of Figma’s global search and discoverability strategy, leading both traditional organic search and emerging AI visibility programs. You’ll report directly to the VP of Growth Marketing and partner closely with leaders across Product, Web, Content, and Data Science to grow Figma’s organic footprint, ensuring Figma is discoverable wherever people search — whether on Google, AI assistants, or LLM-powered interfaces. This is a highly strategic and technical role for a growth leader who thrives at the intersection of SEO, AI innovation, and content ecosystem design.

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:

Lead Figma’s global SEO strategy across technical, content, and off-page initiatives to drive organic growth and acquisition and partner with Product, Content, and Web Engineering teams to ensure model-friendly, semantically rich content and markup
Expand visibility beyond Google by optimizing for AI search and large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
Build scalable, programmatic SEO systems that grow organic reach and strengthen topical authority across key user journeys
Advance Figma’s technical SEO foundation with improvements to site architecture, Core Web Vitals, crawl efficiency, and structured data
Develop strategies to increase Figma’s inclusion and accuracy in AI-generated answers through better citations and content optimization
Foster a culture of experimentation through A/B testing, user intent validation, and conversion optimization
Hire, mentor, and collaborate across teams to embed SEO and AI visibility best practices throughout Figma’s content ecosystem

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

8+ years of SEO and organic growth experience, with at least 3+ years managing a team
Proven track record driving large-scale organic acquisition across traditional search and emerging AI/LLM discovery channels
Deep technical and international SEO expertise, including site architecture, Core Web Vitals, schema, localization, and hreflang strategy
Strong analytical and leadership skills, able to interpret complex data, align cross-functional teams, and drive measurable outcomes
Curious, experimental mindset, comfortable innovating in AI-driven discovery, conversational search, and model optimization

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

Global B2B SaaS or tech experience
Experience in building and scaling AI LMM channels
Recognized as an industry leader in SEO

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$164,000—$288,000 USD

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

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.