Manager, Recruiting (London, United Kingdom)
Figma
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!
As a Recruiting Manager you will lead, mentor, grow, develop and hire a team of recruiting professionals supporting multiple business functions across our EMEA organization. We are seeking a strategic leader who can set longer term goals and objectives to support the business and partner with our hiring leaders to execute best in class recruiting practices, create belonging, and scale our winning culture. Figma’s continued future success relies heavily on the ability to scale- this is an opportunity to manage a hyper engaged, high performing team, and take our EMEA business through the next exciting phase of growth and beyond.
What you’ll do at Figma:
- Manage, mentor, grow, and develop a team of recruiters and sourcers
- Act as a trusted partner to EMEA leaders to understand business needs and align recruiting resources accordingly in order to achieve goals
- Partner with recruiting leaders to develop a long term recruiting strategy for the region that continues to bring in exceptional talent to Figma
- Scale a team structure that optimises for efficiency and scale
- Build and improve upon recruiting best practices across all orgs
- Take ownership for complex change initiatives to achieve business results
- Champion our values led culture
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- 10+ years of recruiting experience in a similar competitive environment with 4+ years of people management experience with direct experience managing leaders
- Experience partnering with sales leaders and executives to create and drive recruiting strategies and initiatives
- Managed hiring across multiple territories in EMEA
- Experience and understanding of how to build a recruiting function to scale with hyper-growth
- A deep passion and understanding for diversity, belonging, and inclusion
While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
- Have experience scaling a values-led culture
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.
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.
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