Senior Product Counsel

Summary

Join Figma's Legal Team as a Senior Product Counsel and contribute to the growth of our dynamic team. You will provide legal counsel to product teams, ensuring compliance and minimizing risk. Collaborate with various teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to achieve business objectives. Offer strategic legal direction from project development to launch, proactively identifying and mitigating risks. Serve as a liaison between product teams and other legal team members, ensuring comprehensive legal guidance. Build playbooks and processes to scale legal advice. This full-time role can be based in a US hub or remotely within the United States.

Requirements

• 8+ years of legal practice experience
• 2+ years in-house legal 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
• Product counseling experience
• Ability to make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment with strong legal judgment
• Ability to manage and prioritize a high volume of requests from a wide range of client teams and with limited direction
• Experience translating sophisticated legal concepts into practical and actionable advice for a non-legal audience

Responsibilities

• Be integrated with product managers, designers, researchers, analysts, engineers, and others to help them solve problems and achieve business objectives while minimizing risk. You will regularly meet with internal teams (e.g. product) to understand strategies, roadmap, and initiatives, and advise on new features, activities, markets, etc., to ensure alignment
• Provide advice, strategic vision, and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of project development to launch. This includes providing mentorship on the design and modification of products, proactively identifying associated risks and recommending mitigation strategies, reviewing product user experiences to ensure legal compliance and accurate disclosures, and documenting that guidance for consumption by members of both the legal and product teams
• Serve as liaison between your product teams and other members of the legal team - across corporate, commercial, international, IP, and privacy - to ensure your business partners receive comprehensive, clear, and effective legal guidance across fields
• Build playbooks and establish processes to help scale our advice as a legal team

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in a SaaS organization

Benefits

• 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
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles