Corporate Counsel

Posted 13 Days Ago
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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
198K-308K Annually
Senior level
Productivity • Professional Services • Software • Design
Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together.
The Role
As Corporate Counsel at Figma, you will lead M&A transactions, providing legal advice and maintaining processes for the legal function. Responsibilities include conducting negotiations, coordinating with internal and external teams, supporting venture capital investments, and managing regulatory compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, design and build better products — from start to finish. Whether it’s consolidating tools, simplifying workflows, or collaborating across teams and time zones, Figma makes the design process faster, more efficient, and fun while keeping everyone on the same page. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alone—come make with us!

As Corporate Counsel you will help develop our M&A legal strategy, ensuring Figma stays ahead in a constantly evolving tech landscape.

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:

  • Lead and manage legal aspects of M&A transactions, including term sheet negotiations, deal structuring, running deal processes and diligence, assisting with antitrust and other regulatory processes, drafting and negotiating definitive documents, facilitating closing items, and addressing post-closing integration and indemnification issues
  • Coordinate with internal teams—including corporate development, product, accounting, finance, tax, and people operations—as well as external advisors to facilitate the smooth execution of transactions
  • Provide legal advice and support for Figma’s venture capital investments
  • Provide support and advice relating to the Company’s expanding international operations, including creating and managing corporate subsidiaries
  • Build and maintain processes and infrastructure, such as playbooks, templates, metrics, and self-serve tools, to help scale the legal function
  • Work on other corporate and securities projects including public company readiness workstreams
We'd love to hear from you if you have/are:
  • 6+ years of legal experience at a top tier law firm and/or in-house legal department
  • A J.D. and are a current member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar
  • Experience working on a variety of M&A transactions and venture capital deals
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced environments.
  • Proactive, driven, and adaptable; you should be able to prioritize and balance multiple projects, path-find, and recalibrate advice in view of shifting priorities, legal developments, and risk tolerance

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

  • Looking to expand your skillset and work on non-M&A matters such as public company readiness, corporate governance and securities matters
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and business judgment; an ability to distill complex issues and concisely explain why it matters.
  • A strong self awareness around what you know and what you don’t know. You should have a sense of curiosity and desire to learn what you don’t know

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. Figma’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future. You may view our Pay Transparency Policy by clicking on the corresponding link.

Annual Base Salary Range (SF/NY Hub):

$198,000$308,000 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.

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. If you require accommodation, please reach out to [email protected]. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities. 

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 

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the applicable candidate section of Figma's Privacy Policy.

The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Born on the Web, Figma helps teams create, share, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Slack use Figma to boost creative productivity while keeping everyone on the same page.

Why Work With Us

We’re multiplayer people who live by our values, celebrate our differences, and care deeply about each other and our users. Making design accessible to all is a lofty goal. We’re just getting started and could use your help—join us!

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