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# Business Recruiter (São Paulo, Brazil) at Figma

- **Company:** Figma
- **Location:** São Paulo, Brazil
- **Posted:** 2026-03-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/5832782004?gh_jid=5832782004

## Job description

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. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

We are looking to hire an experienced full-life cycle Recruiter to support the organization through its growth, predominantly within Sales with the opportunity to support other functions, like Marketing, Legal, and GBO. You'll be a driving force in building and executing the talent strategy, partnering with key stakeholders, and hiring top talent. This role will allow you to build positive relationships, exude our values, and contribute to our org-wide recruiting best practices and processes.

This is a foundational role in Brazil. In addition to execution on hiring, you will have the opportunity to support recruiting events, contribute to office expansion, and build strategic partnerships across the region.

This is a full time role that will be held in our Sao Paulo, Brazil hub.

What you’ll do at Figma:

- Manage full-cycle recruiting processes for our business organizations (specifically Sales)
- Partner with business leaders to develop top of funnel strategies for key roles
- Source and build healthy, representative pipelines to engage passive talent including: cold outreach, events, and content production while also effectively handling inbound applications and referrals
- Leverage data to inform your hiring strategy and articulate these insights to executives in order to influence and drive positive change
- Champion and spearhead various initiatives relating to belonging, equity and impact (BEI)

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

- 6+ years of full-cycle in house recruiting experience in a high growth business
- Experience partnering with senior executives on high volume searches in sales organizations, such as Enterprise Account Executives
- Ability to build a talent strategy alongside your hiring managers, while delivering an exceptional candidate experience
- Excellent communication, in all formats and ability to adapt communication style based upon audience
- This role will focus on recruiting in Latin America, written and spoken fluency in Portuguese and English is required

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

- In-house experience recruiting for a SaaS company
- Experience hiring leadership roles at the Director level, predominantly within Sales
- Expert knowledge of the SaaS/ scaling tech landscape and who our competitors in this space may be
- Written and spoken fluency in Spanish

At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an [equal opportunity workplace](https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf) - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

- Holding interviews in an accessible location
- Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
- Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
- Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with [Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.figma.com/legal/candidate-privacy-notice/).

## About Figma

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Figma is a collaborative, AI-powered interface design and digital whiteboarding platform that enables teams to brainstorm, design, and build digital products together in a web-based environment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F, raised $749M total)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Dylan Field (CEO) and Evan Wallace

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Collaborative design software, product development platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C; serves designers, developers, product managers, marketers, and educators across enterprises, SMBs, and individual creators. 95% of the Fortune 500 uses Figma [figma.com](https://www.figma.com/).
- **Mission**: To make design accessible to all. The company believes that "nothing great is made alone."

## Products & Services
- **Figma Design**: The core web-based collaborative interface design tool for exploring, iterating, and prototyping digital products. Features include vector editing, prototyping, and design systems.
- **FigJam**: An online digital whiteboard for brainstorming, meetings, and collaborative work, built for all skill levels.
- **Dev Mode**: A dedicated workspace in Figma that helps bridge the gap between design and code, allowing designers and developers to work in different modes within the same files.
- **Figma Sites**: A tool enabling designers to build and publish dynamic websites with limitless interactions and customizations, powered by code and AI.
- **Figma Buzz**: A product for brand and marketing teams to create visual assets at scale while maintaining brand consistency, featuring built-in AI capabilities.
- **Figma Make**: An AI-powered prompt-to-code tool that turns written descriptions or existing designs into working prototypes or apps.
- **Figma Motion**: A new timeline-based animation tool introduced at Config 2026 for creating motion designs directly on the canvas.
- **Figma for Education**: A dedicated offering for educational institutions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (the planned $20B Adobe acquisition was blocked by regulators in 2023; subsequent Series F in 2024 was at an undisclosed valuation).
- **Key Metric**: Over $749M in total funding raised across 7 rounds (latest: Series F, $416M, May 15, 2024) [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/figma/__ax4OtPOcmyjsFUT81_oGsjztypgqH8K3cQ0_zcUnNBo).
- **Notable Investors**: Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/figma/__ax4OtPOcmyjsFUT81_oGsjztypgqH8K3cQ0_zcUnNBo).
- **Growth Signals**: Over 1,600 employees globally (as of Q1 2025); 2,877 as of April 2026 [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/figma/__ax4OtPOcmyjsFUT81_oGsjztypgqH8K3cQ0_zcUnNBo). Approximately 85% of monthly active users are based outside the U.S., and over 50% of revenue is from outside the U.S. Two-thirds of monthly active users are not designers, indicating strong cross-functional adoption [figma.com/newsroom](https://www.figma.com/newsroom/). Recently achieved ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI use (July 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Browser-native architecture**: Figma was the first design tool built for the web, enabling real-time multiplayer collaboration without installation or file syncing issues.
- **Massive installed base**: 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Figma, creating a powerful network effect and ecosystem lock-in.
- **Cross-functional adoption**: With 2/3 of MAUs being non-designers, Figma has successfully expanded beyond design teams into product, engineering, and marketing.
- **AI-native platform**: Recent investments in AI (Figma Make, AI design agents, AI-powered code generation) position the platform at the intersection of design and AI.
- **Open ecosystem**: Strong plugin and community ecosystem, plus open-source contributions.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Deepening AI capabilities across the entire product suite, including AI-powered design agents, prompt-to-code tools, and automated workflows.
- **Expanding beyond design**: Growing into a full product development platform that spans ideation (FigJam), design (Figma Design), development (Dev Mode, Figma Make), and publishing (Figma Sites, Figma Buzz).
- **Global expansion**: Over half of revenue comes from outside the U.S., with dedicated offices in São Paulo, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, London, Berlin, Paris, and Tel Aviv.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Building out enterprise-grade security (ISO 42001 certified), compliance, and governance features.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven with a focus on "Build Community," "Run with It," "Love Your Craft," "Grow as You Go," and "Play." Emphasis on kindness, connection, and lifting each other up [figma.com/careers](https://www.figma.com/careers/).
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Hiring across global hubs and remotely in the US and Canada. Offices in 13 locations worldwide: San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Singapore, Bengaluru, Sydney, São Paulo, and Tel Aviv.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong investment in engineering with active hiring for AI/ML, distributed systems, graphics, infrastructure, and security roles. Annual "Maker Week" encourages exploration of wild, imaginative ideas.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary & equity; health, dental, and vision insurance; retirement with company contribution; parental leave & fertility support; mental health and wellness benefits; generous PTO; company recharge days; learning & development stipend; work from home stipend; cell phone reimbursement [figma.com/careers](https://www.figma.com/careers/).
- **Diversity**: Equal opportunity workplace with Figmate Community Groups focused on shared characteristics and life experiences. Dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, or veteran status.
- **Growth**: Fast-growing company (1,600+ to 2,877 employees in ~1 year) with significant opportunities for career advancement and impact.

## Sources
1. [Figma Careers Page](https://www.figma.com/careers/)
2. [Figma Website](https://www.figma.com/)
3. [Figma Newsroom](https://www.figma.com/newsroom/)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/figma/__ax4OtPOcmyjsFUT81_oGsjztypgqH8K3cQ0_zcUnNBo)
5. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://boards.greenhouse.io/figma/jobs/5814274004?gh_jid=5814274004)

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