Automation Engineering Apprentice in San Francisco

About the Team Design Program Managers make DoorDash's Design Studio run better. As owner of the Logistics pillar within Design Operations, you're accountable for one of our most important operating outcomes: maximizing the bandwidth of the team. About the Role You'll find where ICs and managers lose time, fragmented workflows, manual processes, meeting overload, unclear rhythms, and you'll define and build the tools and systems that fix it. That might mean shipping a new internal tool, automating a recurring workflow, redesigning how scheduling or reviews work, or establishing a better operating cadence. You own the full loop: diagnose the problem, design the system, build the tool, measure whether it worked. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own the Logistics outcome, maximize the bandwidth of the team. ICs and managers have more usable time. Meeting load decreases. The team can focus on high-value work. Identify the biggest sources of operational drag across the Studio and turn them into a prioritized roadmap of tools and process fixes. Define and build the tools, automations, and workflows that reduce manual coordination, including for scheduling, budgets, vendor management, and event logistics. Redesign how the Studio operates: reviews, planning cadences, rhythms for both ICs and managers, information flows, whatever determines how fast teams can move. Measure whether your systems work, usable time for ICs and managers, meeting load, adoption, hours of manual work eliminated, and iterate. Turn recurring requests into scalable solutions. The second time a problem shows up, build the thing that stops a third. Own scheduling, budget, vendor, and logistics programs as a builder, not a permanent executor, your job is to make them need less manual effort every quarter. Partner with (and, as scope grows, help develop) other DPMs on the Logistics pod. We're excited about you because you have… 5+ years in operations, program management, or bu

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! Figma is looking for a Manager, IT Operations to lead our San Francisco team. We are looking for someone with a proven record leading a technical and cross-functional team in a high-growth, evolving environment. You will drive and execute against the team's roadmap, oversee performance management and SLAs, report relevant metrics to leadership, and serve as an escalation point for the team. This is a full time hybrid role that will be held from our San Francisco Hub with at least 2 days in office per week. What you'll do at Figma: Lead and develop IT Operations in San Francisco Hub by coaching and supporting the San Francisco IT Operations team and contractors Roll up your sleeves on escalated issues to assist the team and create documentation, deploy new systems and processes to effectively scale Build and maintain dashboards showing relevant helpdesk metrics (CSAT, SLAs, most common issues) to serve as a baseline for end-user support and overall IT performance. As a data-driven leader you'll use these metrics to identify root causes and create solutions Proactively identify and address inefficiencies and bottlenecks within IT Operations (e.g. access requests, automations, lifecycle management) Partner cross-functionally with teams across the business to understand their needs, solve problems and work towards common initiatives Ensure the procurement of hardware and software aligns within budget and forecast costs to optimize financial planning and resource allocation Lead and own IT projects f