Director, Safety & Physical Security

We’re looking for a Director of Safety & Physical Security to lead and scale our approach to keeping Figmates, offices, and physical assets safe. This role leads physical safety and security strategy and operations across Figma, from offices and events to incident response and executive support, while partnering closely with Workplace, IT, Legal, People, and executive leadership.

As Figma continues to grow and operate in increasingly complex environments, this role ensures our approach to physical safety scales with the company and remains thoughtful, risk-based, and trusted.

This senior leadership role is for someone who brings strong judgment, knows how to build and mature security programs in fast-moving organizations, and is equally comfortable setting strategy and stepping in when situations require hands-on leadership.

This is a full time role that can be held from our San Francisco Hub. 

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Own and lead Figma’s physical safety and security strategy, ensuring consistent standards while adapting to local risks and regulations
• Build, scale, and operate physical security programs across offices, events, and travel
• Lead incident response for critical safety and security events, including threat assessment, crisis management, and post-incident review
• Own and evolve the executive protection program, including risk assessments, travel security, event support, and coordination with internal and external partners
• Assess and manage the physical threat landscape, including workplace violence, protests, travel risk, natural disasters, and executive risk
• Partner closely with Workplace, IT, Legal, People, and Executive teams to align security priorities with business needs
• Establish clear risk-based policies, decision frameworks, and escalation paths
• Develop and lead a high-performing security team, manage external vendors, and communicate clearly with senior leaders during both steady-state operations and incidents