Legal 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!

We're looking for a lawyer with strong experience advising on commercial and technology matters to join our legal team. You'll be working in an exciting and constantly evolving environment while establishing relationships cross-functionally with our sales, strategic partnerships, and other teams to close contracts with our customers and partners. 

This is a full time role that can be held from our London hub on a hybrid basis. 

What you’ll do at Figma: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements with a wide array of customers, working closely with our sales team and relevant stakeholders
• Support our partnership team in signing on strategic partners 
• Collaborate to design, implement, and improve Figma’s legal policies and procedures to manage legal and business risk 
• Help drive legal and go-to-market contracting strategy, including advising the business on legal risks

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Are a UK qualified Solicitor 
• Have at least 2+ years relevant experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial and technology agreements (e.g., enterprise sales agreements, data processing agreements, SaaS agreements, etc) and partnership agreements (e.g., service partner agreements, reseller agreements, referral agreements, etc.)
• Collaborative approach, with strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner with others
• Strong work ethic and comfort operating in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, with a willingness to tackle projects both large and small
• Understanding of AI, privacy and other relevant regulatory issues in commercial tech transactions

While it’s not required, it’s an added plus if you also have:

• Experience using and advising on artificial intelligence 

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.

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
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