Technical Program Manager, AI Performance
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.
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Technical Program Manager, AI Performance at Figma in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
Day-to-day expectations
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- This is a specialist Platform TPM owning horizontal, high-visibility performance programs that span:
- Flagship product performance (load times, FPS, memory) and AI features (model inference latency, throughput, cost, and reliability)
- Desktop, browser, native mobile (React Native / WebView), and WASM contexts
- Cross-org programs: observability/telemetry, regression prevention (performance CI), xfn performance forum, SEV mitigation, safe rollout of AI capabilities, and CE Planning (customer engineering / enterprise readiness)
- 5+ years in performance engineering, performance TPM, platform TPM, or SRE with hands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaS products
- Demonstrated experience with load, stress, performance or scalability testing and new-build comparisons
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