Lead an engineering team scaling Figma Weave, Figma's AI-native creative platform

This is an engineering management role for Figma Weave, the team bridging AI models with professional design craft. The interview should probe strategic roadmap thinking, hands-on technical credibility as a former builder, and hiring/developing senior and staff engineers in a fast-scaling org - grounded in this specific JD, which is thin on technical stack detail.

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What this interview tests

Strategic roadmap planning across short and long time horizons
Cross-functional partnership with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and GTM
Hiring and developing senior/staff-level engineers
Hands-on technical credibility from prior IC experience
Building trust and accountability as an engineering org scales
Experience with design/creative tooling (a plus, not required)

Common question themes

Tell me about a time you set both a short-term and long-term roadmap for your team

Describe partnering with Product, Design, and GTM simultaneously on a feature launch

Walk me through a complex system you personally built as an IC and how that informs your leadership now

How have you hired and retained staff-level engineering talent

Describe how you built accountability and trust across teams during a period of org growth

What's your experience, if any, with design or creative tooling

How candidates describe it

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