Technical Recruiter (London, United Kingdom)

Description

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!

We are looking to hire an experienced full-life cycle Technical Recruiter to support the organization through its growth, predominantly within Engineering and Product with the opportunity to support other functions, like Marketing, Legal, and GBO. You'll be a driving force in building and executing the talent strategy, partnering with key stakeholders, and hiring top talent. This role will allow you to build positive relationships, exude our values, and contribute to our org-wide recruiting best practices and processes.

In addition to execution on hiring, you will have the opportunity to support recruiting events, contribute to office expansion, and build strategic partnerships across the EMEA region.

This is a full time role that will be held in our London hub.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting processes for our technical organizations
• Partner with business leaders to develop top of funnel strategies for key roles
• Source and build healthy, representative pipelines to engage passive talent including: cold outreach, events, and content production while also effectively handling inbound applications and referrals
• Leverage data to inform your hiring strategy and articulate these insights to executives in order to influence and drive positive change
• Champion and spearhead various initiatives relating to belonging, equity and impact (BEI)
• We'd love to hear from you if you have:
• 6+ years of full-cycle in house recruiting experience in a high growth business
• Experience partnering with senior executives on Engineering, Tech & Product hiring
• Ability to build a talent strategy alongside your hiring managers, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience
• Excellent communication, in all formats and ability to adapt communication style based upon audience
• This role will focus on recruiting in EMEA
• While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:
• In-house experience recruiting for a SaaS company
• Experience hiring leadership roles at the Director level, predominantly within Engineering or Product
• Expert knowledge of the SaaS/ scaling tech landscape and who our competitors in this space may be
• 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.
• 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.
• Application limits: To help candidates focus on the opportunities most relevant to their skills and experience, Figma limits the number and frequency of applications. These limits apply to all roles:
• Candidates may submit up to 5 applications during any rolling 30-day period.
• Candidates may not reapply to the same role while an application is active or within 90 days of receiving a rejection.
• Once the applicable days has passed, candidates are welcome to apply again.