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{
  "answers": [
    {
      "question": "Other Website",
      "answer": "https://felixamoruwa.info"
    },
    {
      "question": "Why do you want to join Figma?",
      "answer": "Figma sits at the exact intersection where I've spent the last several years: building AI-powered developer and creator tools, driving product-led growth through data and experimentation, and scaling platforms to massive engagement. At Intuit, I grew ICE engagements 275% YoY to 675M+ in FY23 by running a disciplined portfolio of experiments and translating telemetry data into prioritized roadmap bets \u2014 the same growth muscle this role requires. More recently, I've been building AI products from scratch: a multi-agent orchestration framework (OpenClaw), RAG pipelines, and RL post-training tooling \u2014 so I have a grounded, hands-on POV on where AI-powered product development is heading. Figma's AI roadmap \u2014 helping teams go from brainstorm to prototype to code with AI \u2014 is exactly the kind of transformative workflow shift I want to help users discover and adopt. The challenge of driving growth for genuinely new AI product categories, where user mental models are still forming, is where I believe I can have the most impact."
    },
    {
      "question": "Additional Information",
      "answer": "I'm a NeurIPS-published researcher (protein structure prediction, 2014) with hands-on ML depth spanning hand-coded BPTT in C++ to modern RL post-training pipelines benchmarking GRPO/DPO across TRL, VeRL, OpenRLHF, and NeMo RL. I also teach cloud computing, data analytics, and Java programming as adjunct faculty at De Anza College, which keeps my communication and user-empathy skills sharp across a wide range of technical backgrounds. I hold an FAA Commercial Drone License and a Private Pilot License, and I have forthcoming O'Reilly publications on data analytics and cloud project management."
    },
    {
      "question": "Are you authorized to work in the country for which you applied? ",
      "answer": "Yes \u2014 I am a U.S. citizen and fully authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship."
    },
    {
      "question": "Have you ever worked for Figma before, as an employee or a contractor/consultant? ",
      "answer": "No \u2014 I have not previously worked for Figma as an employee or contractor/consultant."
    }
  ],
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    "First Name",
    "Last Name",
    "Email",
    "Phone",
    "Resume/CV",
    "LinkedIn Profile",
    "Pronouns",
    "From where do you intend to work? ",
    "Preferred First Name"
  ]
}