Developer Advocate (London, United Kingdom)

Figma

Summary

Join Figma's EMEA team as a Developer Advocate in London, supporting developers building on Figma's platform and fostering community growth through relationship-building and technical support.

What you'll do

Grow our footprint in the EMEA developer community.
Enable Figma developers at scale: Write standard process guides, create and share example code and developer resources, contribute to improving API documentation, and help answer technical API questions from our users.
Motivate and empower the community: Maintain and build strong relationships with users and find opportunities to collaborate. Run networks of champions who participate in beta programs, create content, and help run local communities like our Friends of Figma Plugins interest group.
Support our sales and business development initiatives: Partner with developers who are building on the Figma platform to help educate and unblock them—this could be partners building integrations with Figma as well as high value customers building internal tools to accelerate their design and development process.
Events: Speak regularly at community meetups, conferences and livestreams; host developer focused sessions as part of betas and platform launches.
Advocate for users with the product team. Keep a pulse on community needs, share feedback and work with product to shape the roadmap. Share feedback from the community in an organised, systematic way. Act as trusted adviser for launches to prepare for community reaction. Test new features and provide direct feedback.

Requirements

5+ years experience writing Javascript/Typescript, in addition to modern component-based frameworks (ex: React)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Comfortable presenting to large groups of developers and stakeholders
An understanding of designer workflows and the types of tools used in bridging the gap between designers and developers
An entrepreneurial attitude and joy for iterating on projects from early experimental ideas through to completion
Comfort-level with up to 25% of travel
Experience building with Figma’s APIs (Plugin or REST) and past experience building developer focused communities