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

Manage employment-related litigation including strategy, discovery, drafting, and coordination with external counsel Identify and address developing employment legal

and potential future legal risks to the business Collaborate with other cross-functional business teams including legal, accounting, procurement, and communications We’d love to hear from you if you have/are: UK-qualified with 8+ years PQE, including experience at a top-tier law firm and in-house legal department practising employment law Significant experience providing practical, commercially focused employment law advice across EMEA, including employee relations, investigations, works councils and consultation

, restructurings, redundancies, dismissals, and other complex employment matters Proven ability to build trusted relationships with People, Legal, and business leaders, exercise strong commercial judgement, and influence decision-making in complex situations Experience designing and scaling employment policies, programmes, processes, and documentation in a growing organisation, including leveraging technology and AI-enabled tools where appropriate Exceptional communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative approach, with a strong desire to learn, improve, and help build effective solutions While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: Significant experience with employment law in France and Germany; fluency in French or German Interest in employment law outside of EMEA Experience with international expansion and M A 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.

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. 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.