Employment Counsel, EMEA

• Serve as Figma's primary employment legal adviser across EMEA, partnering closely with People and business leaders to support the international workforce. • Help scale Figma's global employment legal function as the company continues to grow internationally. • This role can be held from the London hub or remotely in the United Kingdom.

• Be UK-qualified with 8+ years PQE, including experience at a top-tier law firm and in-house legal department practising employment law. • Have 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. • Have proven ability to build trusted relationships with People, Legal, and business leaders, exercise strong commercial judgement, and influence decision-making in complex situations. • Have experience designing and scaling employment policies, programmes, processes, and documentation in a growing organisation, including leveraging technology and AI-enabled tools where appropriate. • Have exceptional communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative approach, with a strong desire to learn, improve, and help build effective solutions.

• Have significant experience with employment law in France and Germany. • Be fluent in French or German. • Have interest in employment law outside of EMEA. • Have experience with international expansion and M&A.

• Serve as the primary employment legal adviser for EMEA and support other regional and global employment 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. • 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.

• Work from the London hub or remotely anywhere in the UK. • Shape the employment legal function at one of the world's most influential design platforms. • Join a close-knit company with a strong culture that promotes inclusivity and collaboration.

Figma's platform helps teams bring ideas to life, whether brainstorming, creating prototypes, 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. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse team.