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Technical Program Manager, AI Performance

Figma is a collaborative design platform building tools to make design accessible and fast. The company is hiring an AI-native Technical Program Manager focused on performance prevention, diagnostics, and safe rollout across flagship products and next-gen AI features spanning desktop, web, and mobile.

Skills

  • Performance testing (load, stress, endurance, interference)
  • Observability and telemetry (RUM, metrics, tracing, logs)
  • Web performance (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS and WASM memory profiling
  • Mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler)
  • CI/CD and test automation for performance
  • Distributed systems, cloud infra (AWS), autoscaling and capacity planning
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, inference latency, batching and prompt engineering
  • Incident response and SEV mitigation

Responsibilities

  • Own platform-level performance programs spanning desktop, browser, native mobile and WASM contexts
  • Define and execute performance prevention and diagnostics strategies (load, stress, endurance, interference)
  • Lead observability, telemetry, and performance CI/regression prevention initiatives
  • Coordinate safe rollout and SEV mitigation for AI features and flagship product changes
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Platform, Performance, Product Support, and Customer Engineering
  • Integrate performance tests into CI/CD pipelines and automate regression detection
  • Drive capacity planning, autoscaling strategies, and incident response for performance issues
  • Plan and run customer/enterprise load tests and readiness activities

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in relevant field is a plus but not required

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Health, dental & vision insurance
  • Retirement plan with company contribution
  • Parental leave and reproductive/family planning support
  • Mental health & wellness benefits
  • Generous PTO and company recharge days
  • Learning & development stipend
  • Work-from-home stipend and cell phone reimbursement
  • Annual bonus plan (for eligible non-sales roles) and sales incentives where applicable
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