Figma, the San Francisco startup that makes cloud-based design collaboration software, has opened a small engineering hub in Seattle.
The company is working out of a WeWork space at 1201 Third Ave. that has room for about 30 people. With a base of engineers in the Seattle area, and plans to hire more, Figma was looking to create a more permanent presence for its workers, or “Figmates” as it calls them.
The office is being led by Abhi Mathur, Figma’s vice president of engineering. Mathur has an MBA from the University of Washington and previously spent seven years as a senior director of engineering at Meta and 11 years as an engineer and manager at Microsoft.
Founded in 2012, Figma has a hybrid work model and employs more than 1,000 people globally. Beyond San Francisco and Seattle, the startup has hubs in New York and London as well as remote employees across the U.S. and Europe.
Design rival Adobe announced last September that it planned to acquire Figma for $20 billion in a bid to “usher in a new era of collaborative creativity.” But the Department of Justice is reportedly planning to file an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal.
Figma joins a list of more than 100 other out-of-town companies with engineering hubs in the Seattle area.
