Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Figma is a company on a mission to make design accessible to all, helping teams bring ideas to life through their platform. They are seeking an AI-Native Performance Technical Program Manager to own performance prevention, diagnostics, and safe rollout for their flagship products and next-gen AI features, requiring deep experience with performance testing and observability.
Responsibilities
- This is a specialist Platform TPM owning horizontal, high-visibility performance programs that span:
- Flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability)
- Desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native / WebView), and WASM contexts
- Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry, regression prevention (performance CI), xfn performance forum, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)
Skills
- 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products
- Demonstrated experience with load, stress, performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
- Deep familiarity with web performance (FCP, LCP), rendering/FPS, WASM memory, mobile profiling (Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler)
- CI/CD and test automation experience: integrating performance tests into pipelines
- Distributed systems, cloud infra (AWS), autoscaling, and capacity planning
- Hands-on prior work with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent platforms
- Experience with MLops or LLMs: inference latency tradeoffs, batching, caching, etc
- Observability stack: Datadog / Sentry / RUM
- Background as a performance engineer (not just TPM) with code or test harness contributions
- Experience with large enterprise Planning / customer load tests
- Familiarity with real-time collaborative systems and GPU/WASM performance constraints
Benefits
- Figma offers equity to employees
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits with company contributions
- Parental leave and reproductive or family planning support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave, holidays, and other leave benefits in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the requirements of the Washington Minimum Wage Act and related regulations
- Exempt employees are eligible for employer‑provided paid flexible PTO in addition to flexible paid sick leave
- PTO is subject to manager approval
- Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and a number of lifestyle spending accounts
- Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles
- Annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles
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