Solution/Pre-Sales Engineer

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! At Figma, our Solutions Consulting team plays a meaningful role in crafting strategic solutions alignment and driving revenue growth—bridging deep technical expertise with business context and painting the vision of what’s technically possible. The Manager, Solutions Consultant role will manage a team supporting UK/I & Nordic Strategic, Enterprise and Mid-Market accounts, marrying technical depth with strong storytelling to bring Figma’s platform to life for some of the most influential enterprises in the region. As a cross-functional leader, you will collaborate closely with Sales, Product, Customer Experience, and Support teams to drive consultative strategies that unlock customer value and accelerate growth. With Figma rapidly innovating, this position offers the exciting challenge of scaling the Solutions Consulting function and contributing to the evolution of our enterprise go-to-market motion. This is a hybrid role held from our London office. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT FIGMA: * Lead and empower a diverse team of Solutions Consultants across London * Participate in customer and prospect meetings alongside your team * Assist in continual training and development, including mentorship, hiring, and career growth * Work cross-functionally to help define and execute our technical pre-sales strategy * Build and implement programs that help scale our Solutions Consultants and drive greater impact for our customers * Monitor team performance and support them in exceeding their goals WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * 8+ years of relevant customer-facing technical experience with 3+ years experience leading Solutions Consultants or Sales Engineers, with direct accountability for team performance, mentorship, and feedback * Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Proven success collaborating with cross-functional partners, including Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Support * A hands-on problem solver who mentors effectively but can also jump in as a player when needed. You have a proven track record designing and implement strategic programs that drive impact across teams * Experience with light scripting, querying, or prototyping WHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * Experience using or working with Figma * Experience working across multiple time zones 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. 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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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.

The role We are looking to hire a Senior Solutions Consultant to join our Commercial team in London. This is a full time office-based role out of our London office. Minimum expectation 3 days per week in office.  Working at WGSN Together, we create tomorrow   A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.    WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you. Role overview  For two decades, WGSN's proprietary trend intelligence has shaped how the world's most valuable brands in fashion, beauty, consumer goods, interiors and food & drink make decisions. Now those same brands are rebuilding their stack around AI—agents, knowledge platforms, recommendation engines, and personalisation systems—and they want WGSN forecast intelligence flowing into them as a data layer, delivered through our Pulse Intelligence API.   This role leads the pre-sales technical and solutioning workstream on our largest enterprise opportunities. Working alongside Enterprise Account Directors, you will qualify, scope, design and close  API and data-integration deals at $1m+ multi-year contract value, covering both new logos and expansion within existing accounts.   This is a hybrid technical and consultative sales role. You will run discovery sessions with senior stakeholders across design, consumer insight, buying and merchandising, as well as Chief Digital, Innovation and Data Officers shaping the AI agenda. You will then translate those conversations into commercial propositions.   We are looking for significant experience in enterprise pre-sales, solutions consulting, solutions engineering or technical account management, selling data, API, SaaS or AI/ML products into large enterprises. Direct experience of API and data-product sales cycles are essential.   What we offer Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including: 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance & Critical Illness Employee assistance programme and cycle to work scheme Volunteering opportunities  Great learning and development opportunities More about WGSN WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting. We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.   Our values  We Are Everywhere The future is everything, it happens everywhere. WGSN is the world-leading forecaster because we track and analyse consumer behaviours, product innovation, design and creativity, everywhere. We Are Future Focused We utilise our global resources and intelligence to research, source and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce our forecasts. Everything we do is focused on working with our customers to create a successful and positive tomorrow. We Are Rigorous We source, review and assess quantitative and qualitative data to produce robust, actionable forecasts. To provide credible insights and design solutions for our clients, it is essential that rigour runs through everything we do.   Our culture   An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.   Inclusive workforce   We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.     Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.    We offer a flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been—and will continue to be—actively encouraged here, but we do not offer full remote working.    We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.   A Note for Applicants   We use AI to help our team screen applications and identify candidates whose skills and experience match the role. This technology removes personal information to promote a fair and unbiased process. We believe this tool helps us find the best talent while maintaining transparency and fairness.   A Note for Recruiters   Thank you so much for your interest in working with us at  WGSN!   Our internal Talent Acquisition team takes care of all our recruitment efforts. When we need some extra help, we partner with agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) that truly understand our business, culture and ways of working together.  Since we focus on these established partnerships, we’re unable to respond to unsolicited contacts or CVs from outside our PSL. But don’t worry! If we decide to explore new partnerships, we’ll be sure to reach out.