Events Manager

San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • Seattle, WA • United States

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

Bringing our users together at events is core to Figma’s marketing strategy. We do this through educational livestreams, product office hours, community events, and more! The biggest event of the year is our global user conference Config.

As an events manager, you will support a team to bring all of these events to the next level — planning and driving the strategy to scale our programs while maintaining and growing the engagement and connection to our community that makes these events so special.  

As an Events Manager on our Experiential Marketing team, you’ll own and drive experiential event strategy to bring brand awareness to Figma and our suite of products. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams (like Brand and Partnerships) to bring the marketing team’s goals and objectives to life through impactful events centered around our community. Your focus will be on producing both in-person and virtual events, including Config! 

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Help guide the (in person & virtual) events team strategy, focusing on: educational livestreams, global user conferences and brand marketing initiatives. 
• Be a core part of the planning and execution of Figma’s annual user conferences. 
• Develop event goals and work cross-functionally to track metrics that are essential to the success of all Figma events, such as: promotion tactics, leads, and opportunities created. 
• Own multiple work streams for our global user conference, Config, including Sponsorships and 30,000+ square foot space of activations. 
• Own agency relationships for event production and execution. 
• Build and track event budget and expenses. Partner with the legal and finance teams to track contracts and expenses. 
• Foster cross-functional communications across the Marketing organization to ensure alignment, while identifying new opportunities for the experiential marketing team
• Plan events from start to finish, including leading cross-functional kickoffs, establishing meeting cadences, liaising with external partners and lead on-site logistics and schedule post-event retros. 

Some projects you could work on: 

• Config, our annual conference! 
• Developer events
• Brand activations 

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 7+ years of experience in event marketing including: producing conferences of various sizes (both large and small scale), sponsorship management, and brand activations 
• Experience with owning all aspects of planning events big and small, such as conferences, sponsorships, brand activations, and proprietary events. 
• A community oriented mentality! 
• Experience developing experiential marketing strategy. You’re comfortable defining success metrics for an event, sharing out results and using your findings to inform future planning.
• Strong project management and event production skills. You like managing multiple work streams simultaneously, sweat the small stuff and leave no detail untouched. 
• You’re comfortable building on existing foundations and implementing processes across multiple work streams and teams. 
• You are an effective relationship builder and you love collaborating with internal and external partners. You can build relationships quickly and effectively and make sure to nurture them along the way.
• Experience working with event production agencies and are comfortable managing them. 
• Has experience managing project budgets up to $2M. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Travel required up to 25% of the year. 

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Familiarity with event management tools, registration platforms, CRM systems, and other event technology to streamline event processes and enhance attendee experiences

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.  

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. 

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a 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. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$112,000—$260,000 USD

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. 

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• 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 

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