Legal Counsel

Figma • San Francisco, CA

21d • Remote

About The Position

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 seeks a highly motivated, curious, adaptive team player to serve as Counsel on our Product, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Marketing, and Regulatory Legal Team. This role provides strategic, practical legal guidance at the core of Figma’s product development and growth, partnering closely with product, engineering, marketing, product support, and legal teams to support responsible, user-centric innovation. It is a unique opportunity to gain broad in-house experience at a fast-growing public company while helping scale compliant, trusted products in a dynamic and evolving regulatory landscape.
This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Requirements

• J.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• 6+ years of experience as a practicing attorney at a law firm and/or in-house
• Experience taking a proactive approach to your work and working under your own initiative, seeking feedback and input where appropriate
• Proven problem-solving and experience varying communication skills for a target audience
• Experience with one or more of the following or related legal areas: regulatory, product, and privacy counseling

Nice To Haves

• Experience with global privacy legal requirements, especially those relating to marketing, or product privacy counseling
• Experience with managing legal risk across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience of advancing simultaneous projects in a multi-stakeholder environment

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve Figma’s legal policies and procedures to manage legal and business risk on a global scale
• Provide practical advice to business clients on a wide-ranging set of legal issues, including, but not limited to: regulatory, privacy, marketing, and intellectual property
• Review products, features, and initiatives (research, marketing, etc.) to assess legal compliance, from the early stages of development through launch
• Advise product, marketing, engineering, data science, research, & product support teams with an appropriate risk assessment
• Work with other stakeholders and counsels to collaboratively develop strategies

Benefits

• Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement.
• Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles.
• Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree