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Figma
The Strategic Finance, Systems and AI Innovation role at Figma drives transformational projects by applying finance and systems expertise, collaborating across the organization, and defining business processes that improve automation, standardization, and simplicity. Core responsibilities include influencing 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); serving as functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment) — leading development, enhancement, training, enablement, maintenance, and administration; owning the systems roadmap end-to-end (prioritization, resource deployment, UAT, governance); designing and evolving best-in-class systems architecture (data flows, integrations, tooling influence beyond Pigment); establishing cross-functional partnerships with Strategic Finance Data Science, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Operations; developing dashboards and data visualizations surfacing key KPIs and business insights; and driving best practices across systems controls, data governance, and change management. Required: 5+ years of experience in Finance Systems, roadmap execution, or related function; strong technical skills.
Role context
Strategic Finance roles focused on Systems and AI Innovation at scaled SaaS companies own the finance systems backbone that powers planning, forecasting, and resource allocation as the company scales. At Figma, this role serves as the functional and technical owner of the financial planning platform (Pigment), leading systems development, AI adoption strategy, and finance-to-data architecture decisions. The position requires equal fluency in finance domain knowledge and systems thinking — building processes that improve automation, standardization, and AI-augmented decision-making. Compensation: $169,000 plus equity. Available remotely in the US or from Figma’s SF and NYC hubs.
Quick facts
Frequently Asked Questions
How does this Strategic Finance Systems role differ from a typical FP&A Manager?
FP&A Managers focus on producing forecasts, variance analysis, and business partnering with department leadership. Strategic Finance Systems roles focus on building the infrastructure that powers FP&A — owning the planning platform, designing data integrations, and embedding AI/automation into workflows. This role is closer to a finance-domain Solutions Architect than a traditional finance analyst.
Is hands-on Pigment experience required or can other planning platforms substitute?
Figma uses Pigment as their planning platform, and the role is functional/technical owner of Pigment specifically. Candidates from Adaptive, Anaplan, Vena, or Workday Adaptive Planning typically ramp on Pigment in 2-4 weeks given the conceptual similarities. The harder requirement is the systems-architecture mindset and AI tooling fluency.
What does 'AI Innovation' mean in this finance role's day-to-day?
Concrete examples: building LLM-powered query interfaces for finance data (natural language to SQL/Pigment queries), embedding agentic tooling into close processes (automated variance commentary, anomaly detection), designing AI-augmented forecast workflows where models suggest revisions to baseline forecasts. The role is expected to drive Figma Finance's AI adoption strategy, not just consume tools that exist.