Noah Levin

Noah Levin is a designer who joined the design collaboration platform Figma in 2017 as its first design manager and is now the company’s vice president of design; he previously worked on interaction and user experience design at Google and ClassPass.

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2006–2010Studying at Carnegie Mellon University

According to his personal website, he is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, studied for a B.S. in information systems with a minor in design at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It grew out of the Carnegie Technical Schools, founded with funding from Andrew Carnegie in 1900, which were renamed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and took the present name after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967. The university is known for computer science, robotics, engineering, and the arts, and has campuses in Qatar, Silicon Valley, and Rwanda. As of September 2025, it enrolled 16,582 students. Its current president is Farnam Jahanian. On September 30, 2026, the university announced a $3 billion gift from Ken Griffin and plans to build a new campus in Miami.Open the full entry from 2006 to 2010, and earned a master’s degree in human-computer interaction there in 2010.⁠[1]

His personal website says his master’s capstone project was carried out at NASA; a podcast introduction says he worked on building a digital assistant for astronauts.⁠[1][2]

2011–2015Interaction Designer at Google

From 2011 to 2015 he worked at Google in Mountain View, listed on his personal website as a staff interaction designer; according to his own writing and interview introductions, he worked on the Google app for iOS and mobile search.⁠[1][3][2]

2015–2017Head of UX at ClassPass

According to his personal website, he was head of UX at ClassPass in New York from 2015 to 2017 and served in 2015 as an advisor to Framer, a prototyping tool company; an interview introduction says that at Framer he helped teach designers to code.⁠[1][2]

2017Joining Figma as Its First Design Manager

In a December 2018 article, he wrote that he had returned to San Francisco the previous year to become Figma’s first design manager and that the team then had eight designers.⁠[4]

He later wrote about how Figma’s design team works, including weekly warm-ups, critiques and cool-downs, monthly all-hands meetings and twice-yearly off-sites.⁠[5]

As of October 2026: Vice President of Design at Figma

His personal website lists his position since 2017 as vice president of design at Figma; interview programs in 2024 and 2025 described him as Figma’s vice president of product design.⁠[1][6][2]

According to his personal website, he has also made angel investments in companies including Fitbod, Farcaster, Gather and Reforge.⁠[1]

Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts

Carnegie Mellon University: Official website: https://www.cmu.edu/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

Google: Official website: https://www.google.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

ClassPass: Official website: https://classpass.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

Framer: Official website: https://www.framer.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

Figma: Official website: https://www.figma.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

Personal website: Public link: https://nlevin.com/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/nlevin (opens in a new window)⁠[4]