Legal Counsel

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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 Figmas 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.

What youll do at Figma:

• Design implement and improve Figmas 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

Wed love to hear from you if you have:

• 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

While its not required its an added plus if you also have:

• 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

At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts experiences and opinions allows our employees our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity/expression veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role participate in the interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation please reach out to . These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figmas Candidate Privacy Notice.