Description:
Company Overview:Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people's lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).
What You'll Do:
The Legal Counsel, Commercial Legal, will provide legal support in the areas of contract drafting and negotiations, supporting Docusign's U.S. sales team. We are looking for a high performer who possesses a strong service mindset, is adaptable, collaborative, loves to learn, and is passionate about innovating the legal service delivery model.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to a Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Commercial Legal.
Responsibility
- Drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a variety of transactions with current and potential customers, including SaaS subscription agreements, professional services agreements, NDAs, etc.
- Analyze risk and create innovative solutions to the wide-range of challenges our high- growth global business faces as we expand and scale
- Assist in the development and continuous improvement of customer templates, playbooks, commercial policies, procedures and programs, as well as training for same
- Serve as a strategic counsel, trusted advisor, and legal business partner to various sales, professional services, finance and other departments with customer-facing responsibilities
What you bring:
Basic
- 5+ years of related in-house legal department and technology-related contracting experience or law firm experience.
- Juris Doctorate Degree
- Admitted to practice and in good standing with a U.S. state bar
Preferred:
- Preference for candidates local to Seattle, WA or the San Francisco CA Bay Area
- Eligible for in-house counsel registration in California or Washington, as applicable
- Experience supporting regulated industries, such as public sector/government customers, financial services, and/or healthcare
- In-house experience in the high-tech industry
- Excellent contract negotiating and drafting skills
