Anthropic Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger left Figma's board on April 14, days before Anthropic announced Claude Design, a visual design tool that directly competes with Figma's core product. Krieger had joined the board less than a year earlier while serving as Anthropic's top product executive; the conflict of interest became untenable once the competing product was confirmed. The departure rattled Figma investors already worried about AI labs displacing SaaS businesses.