Manager, Customer Enablement (Tokyo, Japan)

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Tokyo, JPN
Hybrid
Senior level
Productivity • Professional Services • Software • Design
Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together.
The Role
Leads and scales Figma's Customer Experience Manager team in Japan. Responsibilities include setting team strategy, managing performance, coaching employees, supporting career development, partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Support, Product, and Marketing, ensuring enterprise customers realize value, and serving as a player-coach and escalation point for key customers.
Summary Generated by Built In

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

Our team of Customer Experience Managers (CEMs) work closely with some of Figma’s largest customers to drive engagement, adoption, and value realization. Now, we’re looking for an experienced and passionate leader to help scale this function in Japan.

As the Manager, Customer Enablement, you will lead a team of CEMs who partner deeply with select Mid-Market, Enterprise, and Strategic customers. You’ll help shape the strategy of the CEM team, coach and develop individual contributors, and contribute to the broader goals of Figma’s Customer Experience organization. We're seeking someone who has helped scale post-sales functions in high-growth SaaS environments and is deeply motivated by helping customers succeed and realize business value by using our platform.

If you’re energized by enabling and developing customer-facing teams, and you have a background in SaaS and/or product design and development tools, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a full time role based out of our Tokyo hub.

What you’ll do at Figma:
  • Lead, manage, and grow a team of high-performing CEMs
  • Set clear goals and expectations, provide mentorship and coaching, and support career development
  • Partner with Sales, Support, Product, and Marketing to ensure customer needs are met and exceeded
  • Ensure the team is delivering exceptional value and experience across our enterprise customer base
  • Regularly engage directly with customers and act as an escalation point when required (while this is a leadership role, we expect this role to include strong player-coach dynamics)
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
  • 3+ years of formal people management experience in Customer Experience, Customer Success, or a similar post-sales function
  • 5+ years of total experience in customer-facing roles within high-growth SaaS companies
  • A customer-first mindset with strong strategic thinking and execution capabilities
  • A proven ability to lead, inspire, and scale teams, especially through growth and change, and a passion for building inclusive, thoughtful, and high-performance team cultures
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect with a wide range of internal and external personas
While it's not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
  • Familiarity with design systems, product development workflows, or Figma itself
  • Experience in a similar role at a design, collaboration, or productivity-focused SaaS company
  • A background in UX/UI, Design Ops, or Frontend Development
At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.

Skills Required

  • 3+ years of formal people management experience in Customer Experience, Customer Success, or a similar post-sales function
  • 5+ years of total experience in customer-facing roles within high-growth SaaS companies
  • Customer-first mindset with strong strategic thinking and execution capabilities
  • Proven ability to lead, inspire, and scale teams through growth and change
  • Excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders
  • Familiarity with design systems, product development workflows, or Figma
  • Experience in a similar role at a design, collaboration, or productivity-focused SaaS company
  • Background in UX/UI, Design Operations, or Frontend Development

Figma Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Figma and has not been reviewed or approved by Figma.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare is considered comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision coverage complemented by mental health and wellness support, and plan quality described as strong.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Generous or unlimited PTO, company recharge days, paid holidays, and sick time create ample opportunities for rest and flexibility.
  • Parental & Family Support Parental leave and fertility support are emphasized, including around 20 weeks paid maternity leave and lifetime-capped fertility assistance referenced in recent examples.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Born on the Web, Figma helps teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Slack use Figma to boost creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page.

Why Work With Us

We’re multiplayer people who live by our values, celebrate our differences, and care deeply about each other and our users. Making design accessible to all is a lofty goal. We’re just getting started and could use your help—join us!

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