Figma Migration Program Lead

Our client is looking for a Figma expert to lead their organization's migration from Sketch to Figma, from discovery through deployment and adoption. As the primary implementation lead, you'll design workspace architecture and governance models tailored to our team's workflows, build a change management plan to drive user adoption.

Responsibilties

• Partner with designers and producers to assess current workflows, pain points, and requirements
• Collaborate with core project team to design workspace architecture, permission models, and governance frameworks aligned to business needs
• Configure and deploy Figma workspaces, libraries, and access groups
• Build and deliver tailored training for users from beginner to advanced skill levels
• Drive adoption and change management, including communications and engagement strategy
• Serve as the org's primary knowledge source for Figma questions, best practices, and troubleshooting
• Monitor Figma's product roadmap and cascade relevant changes
• Liaise with the internal Figma team about their roadmap for Figma features and integration with other internal tools
• Evaluate and optimize processes on an ongoing basis
• Ensure Figma workspaces, files, and access permissions comply with data classification, confidentiality, and secrecy requirements, including restricting access to unreleased or sensitive product/design work

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical program management or implementation consulting experience
• Experience deploying enterprise-wide design-tool solutions, ideally for creative organizations
• Expert level knowledge of Figma features and administration model
• Informed on Figma's product roadmap and enterprise capabilities
• Excellent program delivery skills: planning, dependency management, and stakeholder communication and alignment across highly matrixed and distributed teams of all levels and functions
• Track record of building processes from scratch in environments where business and workflow requirements may only be loosely documented
• Experience driving adoption of new practices, processes, or tools across multiple teams or organizations
• Comfortable operating within a highly confidential environment, with sound judgment around access control, secrecy, and information-handling policies
• Skilled at navigating organizational dynamics and overcoming resistance to change
• Able to distill complex information and present data in clear, easy-to-understand formats
• Proficient in Numbers, Keynote, and various collaboration software (e.g., Quip, Slack)

Bonus: Background in UX/UI or frontend development

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