Senior Legal Counsel - Fully Remote

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. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!

Figma's Product Legal team is growing! In this role, you will act as a primary legal partner for our Product, Design, and Engineering (PDE) teams, helping them navigate novel, complex legal questions as our product releases accelerate. We are looking for a strategic thinker with an ownership mentality who can help us build a practical, forward-looking approach to risk management. You'll report to the Director, Product Legal, and play a pivotal role in shaping how we scale legal guidance across the organization.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Partner directly with Figma's Product, Design, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to provide practical legal guidance on product development and go-to-market strategy

Review product user experiences, disclosures, and external marketing and communications materials to mitigate legal risk while helping our teams achieve their goals

Partner with cross-functional Legal teams (Commercial, IP, Regulatory) to ensure cohesive strategy and support

Advise on legal issues relating to data protection, privacy, consumer protection, IP, and evolving AI-specific laws and regulations

Develop and build out the processes, resources, and scaffolding needed to help our team scale our legal guidance as our product releases accelerate

Identify and communicate emerging legal risks early in the product development cycle to enable faster, more confident decision-making

In-depth experience counseling on legal issues relating to technology, IP, privacy, data protection, consumer protection, and AI

Proven ownership mentality, including hands-on engagement with product details, process-building from scratch, and independent prioritization

A business-first, solution-oriented approach, including comfort making independent decisions and taking smart risks with imperfect information

Demonstrated interest in AI and experience advising on AI-powered products or platforms

You have 8+ years of legal experience & J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent) and is U.Experience working in-house at a SaaS company

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

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. 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. 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.

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