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Technical Program Manager, AI Performance

at Figma

📍 San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States Onsite Posted April 01, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience senior
Exp. Years 5+ years
Education Not specified
Category AI & Machine Learning

Technical Program Manager, AI Performance owns platform-wide performance programs spanning flagship products and next-gen AI features. You will drive diagnostics, prevention, and safe rollout across desktop, web, and mobile, partnering with Product, Platform, and Product Support to keep Figma snappy.

  • Own horizontal, high-visibility performance programs
  • Oversee performance prevention, diagnostics, and safe rollout
  • Partner across Product, Platform, Performance Program and Product Support
  • Span desktop, browser, and mobile contexts (WASM/WebAssembly)
  • CI/CD integration and observability/telemetry efforts

Platform TPM with hands-on performance engineering experience for SaaS. Deep web performance knowledge (FCP/LCP, FPS), WASM memory management, mobile profiling, CI/CD integration, and cloud infra (AWS). Familiarity with LLMs, prompt engineering, and agent platforms is a strong plus.

The ideal candidate is a senior platform TPM with a strong background in performance engineering for SaaS, hands-on experience with AI/LLMs, and a proven ability to ship performance programs across desktop, browser, and mobile contexts.

5+ years in performance engineeringperformance TPMplatform TPMor SREHands-on experience shipping performance programs for SaaSDeep familiarity with web performance (FCPLCP)rendering/FPSWASM memoryCI/CD and test automation experienceDistributed systemscloud infra (AWS)autoscalingcapacity planningHands-on prior work with LLMsprompt engineeringor agent platforms
MLops or LLMs experienceObservability stack (Datadog / Sentry)Experience with GPU/WASM performance constraintsBackground as a performance engineer with code or test harness contributions
DatadogSentryXcode InstrumentsAndroid ProfilerAmazon Web Services
Load testingStress testingEndurance testingInterference testingObservabilityIncident responseWeb performanceFirst Contentful PaintLargest Contentful PaintFPSWebAssemblyWASMXcode InstrumentsAndroid ProfilerCI/CDAWSAutoscalingCapacity planningLLMsPrompt engineeringAgent platforms
Load testingStress testingEndurance testingInterference testingObservabilityIncident responseWeb performanceFCP (First Contentful Paint)LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)FPS (frames per second)WebAssemblyWASMXcode InstrumentsAndroid ProfilerCI/CDAWSAutoscalingCapacity planningLLMsPrompt engineeringAgent platforms
Cross-functional collaborationCommunicationOwnershipProblem solving
Industry SaaS
Job Function Own performance programs for AI features across the platform
Role Subtype Platform TPM
Tech Domains WebAssembly, Amazon Web Services, Xcode Instruments, Android Profiler
technical program managerai performanceplatform tpmload testingstress testingendurance testingobservabilityincident responseweb performanceFCPFirst Contentful PaintLCPLargest Contentful PaintWASMWebAssemblyXcode InstrumentsAndroid ProfilerCI/CDAWSLLMsprompt engineeringagent platforms

Less than 5 years in performance engineering/TPM roles, No SaaS performance experience, No hands-on experience with LLMs or agent platforms

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