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Employment Counsel
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
7 days ago
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0
Seniority
Mid Level
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Job Description
Employment Counsel
Figma
Role Description 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. Qualifications - 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 employment policies, programmes, processes, and documentation in a growing organisation, including leveraging technology and AI-enabled tools where appropriate. - Exceptional communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative approach, with a strong desire to learn, improve, and help build effective solutions. Requirements - While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have significant experience with employment law in France and Germany; fluency in French or German. - Interest in employment law outside of EMEA. - Experience with international expansion and M&A. Benefits - 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. - We celebrate and support our differences, knowing that a diverse team allows our employees, our product, and our community to flourish. - 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 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. - 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 is compatible with screen readers, and changing the mode or format of interviews.
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