Strategic Finance, AI Innovation

About the Role

The Strategic Finance team is focused on solving some of Figma's most pressing business issues. The team is responsible for owning the company's budget, driving annual and quarterly planning processes, allocating and deploying the company's resources efficiently, performing financial analyses, and partnering with teams across the company.

This role requires someone who can own and evolve the finance systems backbone at Figma and drive outsized impact as we scale toward more automated, intelligent, and AI-enabled planning. This is a full-time role that can be held from one of our US hubs (SF / NY) or remotely in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of transformational projects by applying finance and systems expertise, collaborating with partners across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity.
• Influence Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, defining how AI can be embedded into systems and workflows as infrastructure to drive analysis, reporting, and forecast decisions, and execute on adoption alongside the team.
• Serve as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration.
• Own the systems roadmap end-to-end, including prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, and governance.
• Design and evolve a best-in-class systems architecture, optimizing data flows, integrations, and tooling across the broader company data ecosystem.
• Establish strong cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations to influence data architecture, design integrations, and optimize business processes & sophisticated forecasting in Pigment and Agentic tooling.
• Develop dashboards and data visualizations to surface key KPIs and business insights.
• Drive best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management frameworks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution, or a related function.
• Strong technical skills with system design & implementation, AI automation, data architecture, and integrations.
• Working knowledge of financial processes including O2C, P2P, FP&A, Accounting Ops, and close cycles.
• Strong project management instincts, with the ability to run multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Clear, structured communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with SQL, Python.
• Data science background.
• Experience managing consultants or external resources.

Interview & Application Guidelines

• Video Interviews: All candidates are required to keep their cameras on during video interviews.
• Onboarding: If hired, you will be required to attend in-person onboarding.
• Application Limits: 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.