# Director, IT

**Company**: Figma
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $258,000-$348,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Figma is seeking a Director of IT to lead and grow three critical functions: IT Operations, IT Engineering, and AI Enablement. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that Figma's infrastructure and internal tooling can scale with the company's growth, while also shaping the adoption of AI technologies across the organization.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, grow, and develop a high-performing team of 20+ across IT Operations, IT Engineering, and AI strategy

- Own the strategy and execution of Figma's internal IT infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security

- Partner with Figma's AI team to define and guide an internal AI enablement strategy

- Establish and track KPIs across IT disciplines

- Own IT vendor relationships and participate in contract negotiations and budget planning

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Legal, People, and Finance to ensure IT systems meet compliance, privacy, and regulatory requirements

- Serve as an escalation point and executive sponsor for major incidents and large-scale IT initiatives

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in IT, with at least 4-5 years in a senior leadership role

- Consistent track record of scaling IT Operations and IT Engineering organizations in a fast-growing technology company

- Deep technical knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, SaaS tooling, endpoint management, and IT service management (ITSM) frameworks

- Experience partnering on or directly leading AI or automation initiatives within an IT or enterprise technology context

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience at a product-led, design, or SaaS company with a distributed or hybrid-first workforce

- Experience in IT security or compliance domains such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP

- Experience leading large-scale change management initiatives

Benefits:

- Annual base salary range: $258,000-$348,000 USD

- Equity to employees

- Competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- IT Operations
- IT Engineering
- AI Enablement
- enterprise infrastructure
- SaaS tooling
- endpoint management
- IT service management

### Nice to have
- IT security
- compliance
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- FedRAMP
- change management

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