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<div class="content-intro"><p>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!</p></div><p>We're looking for a Developer Advocate to join our JAPAC Advocacy team, based in Tokyo. This advocate will support content creation, and community building through field events & livestreams, go-to-market motions, product initiatives, and 1:1 customer engagements with our sales team. Advocates at Figma are practitioners first - people who understand the complexity of modern product development firsthand and can advocate for user needs internally.</p> <p>This is a hands-on role that blends technical depth, communication, and strong product intuition. You'll write production-quality code, build demos and tools, and directly support developers and technical teams. You'll also operate as a connective layer across functions - helping translate between customer needs, product decisions, and go-to-market execution.</p> <p>This is a full time role in our Tokyo office, within a hybrid environment.</p> <h4>What you’ll do at Figma:</h4> <div class="section page-centered"> <ul> <li>Partner deeply with Sales and GTM: Join customer engagements, unblock technical teams, and support high-impact deals involving Dev Mode, design systems, and the Figma API</li> <li>Own regional technical presence: Play a leading role across JAPAC field events, activations, and key moments, representing Figma to developer audiences</li> <li>Build real things: Create production-quality demos, prototypes, and tools that reflect how modern teams actually build, not just toy examples</li> <li>Create scalable technical content: Author guides, code samples, and technical narratives that help developers adopt Figma in real workflows</li> <li>Influence product direction: Bring structured, high-signal feedback from customers and the community into Product. Help shape features before and after launch</li> <li>Bridge design and development: Help teams operationalize workflows across design systems, tokens, and developer tooling</li> </ul> </div> <div class="section page-centered"> <h4>We'd love to hear from you if you have:</h4> <ul> <li>5+ years technical front-end knowledge (should be committing code to a production level environment, not self taught alone)</li> <li>English fluency (+ ideally one other language)</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication skills</li> <li>Experience in creating technical content/delivering talks</li> <li>Experience in product development workflows especially collaborating with design teams</li> <li>Background in growth SaaS business</li> </ul> <h4><strong>While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Design experience</li> <li>Knowledgeable about design team + design systems workflows</li> <li>Experience developing (Figma) plugins</li> </ul> <div class="section page-centered"> <div> <div>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.</div> </div> </div> </div><div class="content-conclusion"><p>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 <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf">equal opportunity workplace</a> - 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<strong>, </strong>or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.</p> <p>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 <a href="mailto:accommodations-ext@figma.com">accommodations-ext@figma.com</a>. 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. </p> <p>Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to: </p> <ul> <li>Holding interviews in an accessible location</li> <li>Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing</li> <li>Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers</li> <li>Changing the mode or format of interviews </li> </ul> <p>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. 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