Employment Counsel

• Act as Figma's primary employment legal advisor across EMEA. • Partner closely with People and business leaders to support the international workforce. • Help scale the global employment legal function as the company grows. • Advise on strategic employment and workforce matters at senior level. • Build the policies, playbooks, and tooling that let the legal function keep pace with the business. • Work full time from the London hub or remotely anywhere in the UK.

• Be UK-qualified with 8+ years PQE, including time at a top-tier law firm and in an in-house legal department practising employment law. • Bring significant experience giving practical, commercially focused employment law advice across EMEA. • Handle employee relations, investigations, works councils and consultation requirements, restructurings, redundancies, dismissals, and other complex employment matters. • Build trusted relationships with People, Legal, and business leaders, exercising strong commercial judgement and influencing decisions in complex situations. • Design and scale employment policies, programmes, processes, and documentation in a growing organisation, using technology and AI-enabled tools where they help. • Communicate exceptionally well, stay intellectually curious, and work collaboratively with a strong desire to learn and improve. • Keep your camera on during video interviews and attend in-person onboarding if hired.

• Bring significant experience with employment law in France and Germany. • Speak fluent French or German. • Take an interest in employment law outside EMEA. • Have worked on international expansion and M&A. • Apply even if your experience does not line up perfectly, as Figma hires curious people who grow into the role.

• Serve as primary employment legal advisor for EMEA and support other regional and global employment matters. • Draft, revise, and update employment and benefits-related documentation and agreements. • Advise senior stakeholders on complex employee relations, disciplinary, grievance, and investigation matters, recommending appropriate outcomes. • Identify and operationalise compliance requirements, building scalable employment policies, playbooks, templates, and self-serve tools with partner teams. • Support international growth, covering 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. • Spot developing employment legal requirements and future legal risks to the business before they land. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, accounting, procurement, and communications.

• Choose between the London hub and working remotely from anywhere in the UK. • Own EMEA employment law as the primary advisor rather than one voice among many. • Shape a legal function that is still being built out, including the tooling and playbooks behind it. • Grow as you go, a company value backed by hiring for curiosity and developing skills on the job. • Work somewhere that treats equal employment opportunity as a commitment, including for applicants with criminal histories where the law allows. • Request reasonable adjustments for the application, interview, and the job itself through [email protected], covering accessible interview locations, closed captioning, screen-reader-compatible communication, and changes to interview format.

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