Design Program Manager, AI Evals (London, United Kingdom) Contract NEW

As Figma's AI capabilities expand, so does the work required to evaluate them. We're looking for a Design Program Manager, Evals to own the operating engine behind our design eval programs - the contractor and vendor operations, program rhythms, and quality standards that determine how fast and how well we can assess AI-generated design output. You'll help set the quality and velocity bar across the entire eval pipeline, and shape where our contractor and vendor investment goes.

You'll be a close operating partner to our Design Director for AI Research, working alongside design program management and technical program management counterparts across the organization. You'll own the day-to-day - hiring and enabling contractors, managing vendor logistics and budgets, keeping eval workstreams moving - while building a point of view on how the program should evolve. You should be able to look at design output, speak credibly to craft, and translate that judgment into standards others can apply consistently.

What you'll do at Figma:

• Drive quality and velocity across the design eval pipeline - running annotation rhythms, raising calibration and judgment standards, and closing the loop between eval output and product decisions
• Set the standard for high-quality reference designs so the eval pipeline has a reliable benchmark for what good looks like
• Own contractor hiring end to end: sourcing, screening, and closing - including the judgment call on when to scale headcount up or pull back based on eval demand
• Manage vendor logistics - budgets, SOWs, contracts, and purchasing - partnering with Legal, Security, and Procurement
• Run day-to-day program management for contractors and eval workstreams: status, blockers, timelines, and dependencies
• Partner with model designers to review contractor eval output and hold the quality bar
• Identify opportunities to automate or remove operational overhead across eval workstreams, including through internal tooling