Director, Product Counsel

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!

Figma’s Legal Team is looking for a Director to build and lead our product counseling function team at an exciting time for our growing business. This is an incredible opportunity for a business minded lawyer deeply curious about AI and looking to make a real impact at what is still an early stage of our Legal Team’s growth. Your job will be to set the bar for excellence and manage a small team of lawyers. You will need to set a strategy for our Product Counseling function to be a competitive advantage for Figma, integrating the function with our business teams. You will report to the Legal VP of Product, Privacy, Marketing and IP.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

• Be integrated with product managers, designers, researchers, analysts, engineers, and others to help them solve problems and achieve business objectives while minimizing risk

• Provide advice, strategic vision, and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of project development to launch

• Serve as liaison between your product teams and leaders of other legal functions - across corporate, commercial, international, IP, and privacy

• Build a best in class function here at Figma by hiring well, setting high expectations with your own IC work, and providing strong management to ensure your Senior Product Counsel are set up for success

• Ensure we provide deeply practical and tailored advice while also finding ways to scale our legal advice

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• 10+ years of legal practice experience, with at least 5+ years specializing in a product counsel role in-house

• 4+ year of management experience

• J.D. degree from an ABA accredited law school (or foreign equivalent)

• Membership in at least 1 U.S. State Bar, with good standing

• Ability to translate sophisticated legal concepts to into practical and actionable advice for a non-legal audience

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

• Familiarity with global product launches in SaaS environments

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.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in Figma’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Figma offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. Figma also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):
$281,000—$365,000 USD

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.

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Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location

• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing

• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers

• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

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