Legal Counsel

Title: Legal Counsel

Location: San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States

Content: 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. 

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.    

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information. 

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.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$185,000—$317,000 USD

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 accommodations-ext@figma.com. 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 Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.