Employment Counsel (London, United Kingdom)

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!

As Employment Counsel (EMEA), you will serve as Figma's primary employment legal advisor across EMEA, partnering closely with People and business leaders to support our international workforce and help scale our global employment legal function.

This is a full time role that can be held from our London Hub or remotely in the United Kingdom.

What you’ll do at Figma

Serve as the primary employment legal advisor for EMEA and support other regional and global employment matters, partnering closely with People and business leaders on strategic employment and workforce matters

Draft, revise, and update employment and benefits-related documentation and agreements as needed

Advise senior stakeholders on complex employee relations, disciplinary, grievance and investigation matters and recommend appropriate outcomes

Identify and operationalise compliance-based requirements and build scalable employment-related policies, playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools in collaboration with partner teams to help scale the legal function and the business

Support Figma's international growth, including expansion into new jurisdictions, workforce scaling initiatives, and evolving employment compliance requirements

Manage employment-related litigation including strategy, discovery, drafting, and coordination with external counsel

Identify and address developing employment legal requirements and potential future legal risks to the business

Collaborate with other cross-functional business teams including