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Developer Advocate, Payload

Figma San Francisco, CA Remote senior full-time

Salary

$115,000-$269,000 USD per year

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Description

Figma is seeking a Developer Advocate focused on Payload to join our Marketing, Sales, and Product teams. As a Developer Advocate, you will promote Payload and its integrations with Figma, empower customers to unlock the full potential of Payload, and engage with the Payload community.

Responsibilities:

  • Advocate for Payload: Promote Payload and the Payload + Figma integrations to developers inside and outside Figma.
  • Empower Payload connections: Collaborate with Sales and Customer Experience teams to help customers unlock the full potential of Payload across real product workflows.
  • Engage with the Payload community: Triage GitHub issues and community PRs, including labeling, reproducing and routing them, and working with engineering on review and prioritization.
  • Create compelling content: Create technical content for Payload + Figma products, such as tutorials, demos, videos, starter templates, and livestreams.
  • Inspire community connections: Foster meaningful relationships within the Payload community, identify collaboration opportunities, and nurture user-driven initiatives.
  • Speak and engage at events and in co-marketing: Regularly present at industry meetups, conferences, and community events, sharing practical insights from real-world design work.
  • Champion user voices: Stay attuned to community feedback, sentiment, and emerging design trends,advocating internally to inform product decisions and improvements.

Requirements:

  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Payload and experience integrating it within real product teams.
  • Comfortable operating in evolving workflows, including CMS, DAM, design systems, and AI-assisted design or prototyping.
  • Passionate about engaging with and contributing to the design or developer community.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Entrepreneurial mindset, with the enthusiasm and ability to transform early-stage ideas into polished, impactful outcomes.
  • Flexibility and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time to engage with the Payload community in person.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary ($115,000-$269,000 USD)
  • 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
  • Company recharge days
  • Cell phone and home internet reimbursements
  • Lifestyle spending accounts

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • entrepreneurial mindset
  • community engagement

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/6231582004

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