# Higher Education Community & Partnerships Manager

**Company**: Figma
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $105,000-$221,000 USD
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Figma is growing its team of creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all.

As a Higher Education Community & Partnerships Manager, you will own Figma's institutional growth strategy across universities and bootcamps in the US and beyond.

Responsibilities:

- Build and grow an educator community: identify, engage, and cultivate a network of educators at top university and bootcamp programs

- Drive curriculum integration: identify high-impact courses and partner with educators on teaching resources, assignments, and course packs

- Partner with university technology centers: work with campus tech centers to promote Figma's free education program

- Cultivate institutional relationships: build close ties with program deans, department chairs, and leadership at leading design schools

- Lay the foundation for institutional growth: position Figma to partner with universities at an institutional level

- Create compelling professor programming: design and launch events, resources, and community activations

- Partner with the broader Figma EDU team: work closely across the team to ensure institutional work and student programs align

- Measure success through data: track adoption, engagement, and relationship depth across institutional partnerships

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in academic partnerships, faculty engagement, or institutional relationship management

- Demonstrated success engaging and influencing university leadership

- Experience building programs or communities from scratch with limited resources

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

- A scrappy, entrepreneurial approach

Nice to have:

- Experience as an educator or working directly within a university setting

- Familiarity with design education, HCI programs, or creative disciplines

- Experience working at a high-growth tech company or startup

- Background in community building and education marketing

- Familiarity with sales or business development in an institutional or academic context

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($105,000-$221,000 USD)

- Equity

- Health, dental & vision insurance

- Retirement with company contribution

- Parental leave & reproductive or family planning support

- Mental health & wellness benefits

- Generous PTO

- Company recharge days

- Learning & development stipend

- Work from home stipend

- Cell phone reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- academic partnerships
- faculty engagement
- institutional relationship management
- community building
- education marketing

### Nice to have
- design education
- HCI programs
- creative disciplines
- sales
- business development

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