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 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 requirements, 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