Designer Advocate - Education

What you'll be doing:

• Present and demo Figma in the classroom — not just how Figma works, but paint a picture of how a collaborative environment for design can be integrated into the classroom and provide a better learning experience for both educators and students
• Motivate and empower evangelists — Maintain relationships with users in the education space. Manage networks of evangelists who participate in beta programs, contribute content and run local communities
• Create resources— Share best practices & tips, publish community Figma files, and host live streams to help users and educators better understand how to use the tool and encourage others to share their learnings and experiences
• Messaging — Collaborate closely with marketing to ensure our website, resources, and outreach most effectively speak to students and educators
• Events — Speak regularly at meet ups, conferences, hackathons, schools, and education-focused interest groups
• Advocate for user interests with product team — Keep a pulse on community sentiment on product releases. Share product feedback from community with PM & Design in an organized, systematic way. Act as trusted advisor for launches to prepare for community reaction

We're looking for someone who:

• Has experience working with Figma’s features and the workflows it enables
• Is excited to think creatively about how to bring Figma into the classroom
• Has an understanding of the evolving challenges of today’s design workflows, and how collaboration fits in, whether that be in an industry or classroom setting
• Has some visual design skills, and is comfortable with producing resources within brand guidelines
• You have a real entrepreneurial mindset and enjoy iterating on projects from early experimental ideas through to completion
• Comfort-level with up to 25% of travel(post-COVID)
• Is passionate about supporting the next generation of designers


While not required, one or all of: fluency in a language other than English, strong written communication, videography skills would be a plus for this role

Here are some projects you could work on:

• Presentation decks to help articulate the benefit of how students and educators can work together in real time using Figma
• Figma file resources that could be used for collaborative activities in Figma
• Livestream/video content to help users or educators onboard and connect with others in the Figma community

Read more about some of our initiatives:

• Bringing Figma into even more classrooms
• Figma Education
• Reflections on Config, our first user conference
• Friends of Figma