# Director, Research - AI Evals

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! The Figma Research team is hiring an Director, Research - AI Evals to own how we measure the quality of Figma's AI-powered experiences. As Figma ships more AI capabilities across our products, the question "is this really good?" has never mattered more - and answering it rigorously is what this role exists to do. You'll define what "good" means for our AI features, build the frameworks and quality bars to measure it, and turn that into trusted signal that product teams rely on to decide what to ship. The ideal candidate brings deep, hands-on experience evaluating AI/LLM-powered products - blending human evaluation with automated, model-based approaches - along with the product instinct and communication skills

- **Id**: 38623
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/figma-director-research-ai-evals>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-13T16:16:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-19T19:43:35Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-10-19T19:43:35Z
- **Days open**: 98
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8245
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Internet reimbursement, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Design, Design & Prototyping Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 2804
- **Name**: Figma
- **Domain**: figma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/figma>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 87
- **Open postings**: 118
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.305
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 78
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 258000
- **Max**: 348000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 348000

## Technologies

- **Braintrust** — Optional: no
- **DeepEval** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **LangSmith** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 98

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-07-13T16:16:39Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-19T19:43:35Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 76 · green card filings: 15; Filings 12m: 76; Filings prev 12m: 49; Green card filings 12m: 15

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 348000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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