It’s a position that I feel can be very rewarding and a lot of fun for someone with a blend of design and engineering skills. You would work closely with our excellent design team, but also equally closely with great engineers…
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Marcin Wichary Retweeted David Cole
…not to mention PMs, support, research, copywriters, and – maybe most importantly – directly with our users! (Which can sometimes be really funny, like this moment yesterday.)https://twitter.com/irondavy/status/1316528639521906689 …
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In my time working at Figma, I learned so much about the technical aspects: the underpinnings of typography, React, web assembly, file formats, web platform limitations, shaders, color spaces, etc.
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(Here’s an example: a talk I gave at Config this February, summarizing just one part of the job. Watch it if you’re curious about what working on our editor can look like when it comes to one aspect – typography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI …)
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But equally, I learned tons about how to put those technical aspects to their best use, how to prioritize an endless list of feature and improvement ideas, and how to simplify complexity in many different ways.
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If you like thinking of the future of design tooling on Monday, pondering what to do to improve the quality of a design tool on Wednesday, and jumping in to fine-tune text selection mechanics on Friday, you will enjoy this role!
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Our design team prides itself on a pretty close relationship with engineering that empowers both sides. One great example is a recent Config talk from
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We also love details and the hard choices of knowing which details are important given the desire to put things in hands of our users as quickly as possible. Here’s a Twitter thread that is a deep dive of one such detail-filled feature:https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1250128070658281474 …
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Marcin Wichary @mwicharyWanted to share a bit of the process of building Selection Colors, a little@figmadesign feature I feel rather (maybe strangely) proud of. (This was originally meant to be a blog post, but the Covid-19 situation is sapping my energy…) pic.twitter.com/qD7Us8dq2VShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
You will also have a chance to shape the longer-term future of the editor (and, perhaps, if we do a good job, the industry!). Here’s
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And you’ll be doing this with a talented design team inside a thoughtful company: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-design-team/ …pic.twitter.com/ZXBvjrvHq2
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The role is US-only, but it can be remote (I mean, that part’s pretty obvious these days). Are you interested? Or know someone who might be? My DMs are open, or apply here:https://jobs.lever.co/figma/491848e6-975e-4309-a718-625b1ec5de73 …
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