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’re looking for Data Science Interns who are excited to use data to answer big questions and guide decisions across Figma. At Figma, interns are embedded into small, collaborative teams where they’ll partner closely with engineers, PMs, and designers to make sense of data, build models, and surface insights that shape our product and business.
This internship will be based out of our San Francisco or New York hub.
What you’ll do at Figma:- Collaborate across teams to turn business questions into data problems
- Design experiments and evaluate metrics to guide product decisions
- Build models or conduct analyzes that help us understand behavior and growth
- Develop tools, datasets, or dashboards that make data more accessible to others
- Share insights with both technical and non-technical teammates
Some projects you could work on:
- Investigate user behavior and recommend product improvements
- Improve experimentation accuracy and velocity through new testing methodologies
- Build internal datasets and models to support product, marketing, or business teams
- Explore growth opportunities through critical metric analysis and funnel research
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Investigate user behavior and recommend product improvements
- Improve experimentation accuracy and velocity through new testing methodologies
- Build internal datasets and models to support product, marketing, or business teams
- Explore growth opportunities through critical metric analysis and funnel research
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.
Pay Transparency Disclosure
This internship role is based in either Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, and has the hourly base pay rate stated below. Figma also offers interns a housing stipend and travel reimbursement. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
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 - 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 [email protected]. 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.
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