Legal Counsel

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.

What you'll do at Figma:

• 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

We'd 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 it's not required, it's 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, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.