Strategic Finance, AI Innovation
Figma- Base salary
- $169k–$245k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, CA or New York, NY, or Remote in the US Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Mid-level
About the job
About the role
Figma's Strategic Finance team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company. This role will own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma, driving impact as the company scales toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning.
What you'll do
- Drive execution of transformational projects by applying finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity.
- Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions.
- Serve as functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration.
- Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance.
- Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling with influence extending beyond Pigment and Finance data to the broader company data ecosystem.
- Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations, and optimize business processes and sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling.
- Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights.
- Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution, or a related function.
- Strong technical skills with system design & implementation, AI automation, data architecture, integrations.
- Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles.
- Strong project management instincts, with ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Nice to have: Proficiency with SQL, Python; data science background; experience managing consultants or external resources.
Compensation & benefits
Annual base salary range: $169,000—$245,000 USD. Figma offers equity, 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 laws. Exempt employees are eligible for employer-provided paid flexible PTO. Additional benefits may include company recharge days, cell phone and home internet reimbursements, and lifestyle spending accounts. Sales incentive compensation for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
Application instructions
Apply through the provided Greenhouse link. For accommodation requests, contact accommodations-ext@figma.com.
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