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As Executive Assistant to the Chief Communications Officer and VP of Communications, you’ll provide high-level administrative and strategic support to the MarCom (Marketing/Communications) leadership team. You’ll manage complex calendars and inboxes, coordinate leadership meetings, track action items, organize team communications and events, and handle travel and expense approvals. Acting as a trusted partner, you’ll help optimize time, streamline processes, and support operational planning across the organization. You’ll also collaborate with the CMO’s EA and cross-functional partners to drive alignment on key projects, milestones, and company events.
This is a full time role in our San Francisco hub.
What you'll do at Figma:- Provide direct support to our Chief Communications Officer, our VP of Communications and the MarCom team
- Expected support of CCO & VPs - Deepest level of support attending leadership meetings, tracking agendas, capturing action items and following up on progress, heavy calendar management, inbox management, organizing all hands, team-wide communications, booking travel, partnering with the CMO’s EA, etc.
- Act as the delegate for the CCO & VP, signing off expenses, PO approval, and various other tooling as needed with careful attention to internal policy
- Be a strategic partner to the CCO & VP and their leadership team with a focus on team cohesion, operations, and planning
- Identify areas to optimize CCO & VP’s time and make recommendations in regard to time management, prioritization, and business needs
- Find opportunities for process optimization throughout team and company processes
- Prepare and/or build content, presentations and key documents for the CCO & VP using Figma tools
- Partner with the CMO’s EA to coordinate and prioritize large-scale planning for monthly and quarterly meetings, in-person leadership and full-team offsites, including working with external venues and internal collaborators and cross functional partnership with Marketing and other internal teams to ensure alignment on projects, company achievements, and internal events
- 6+ years of experience in a Senior Executive Assistant support role
- Previous experience supporting Marketing and or Communications teams
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment and can adapt quickly to changing demands
- Stellar communication skills and can connect with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in person, virtually, and over email
- Ability to shift gears and prioritize based on inbound of requests & workload volume and expert at prioritizing and seeing around corners
- Interest in becoming an expert in our product and an affinity for Figma
- Supported teams of 100+ people, bonus points for complex global teams
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 and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
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 [email protected]. 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.
Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:
- 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
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.
By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.
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