Description:

What you'll do
The Senior Counsel, Employment & Litigation will support our Human Resources and business partners on employment law matters in Docusign's North America offices, and other global locations as assigned, providing pragmatic, risk-weighted advice on a broad range of employment, benefits and related compliance matters. This role will also support non-employment litigation and oversee third-party claims affecting Docusign's global business. This role involves leading and handling cutting-edge and complex legal projects and matters. You should thrive in an environment that requires you to adapt to changing priorities and organizational needs. In addition, you must have the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment and must thrive working collaboratively and proactively within the legal team as well as across other functional teams and with external stakeholders.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Director and Deputy General Counsel, Employment & Litigation.

Responsibility

Advise and support Docusign Human Resources and business partners on employment-law related matters in Docusign's North America offices, and other global locations as assigned, including hiring, performance management, terminations, discrimination, harassment, accommodations, leaves of absence, wage and hour issues, incentive compensation, benefits (including plan design, implementation, administration and communications), employee investigations, restructuring initiatives and corporate development (M&A) activity
Monitor new laws, regulations and decisions affecting the substantive legal areas above and provide strategic advice to the Legal team
Draft and negotiate offer letters and employment-related agreements, including severance, separation, restrictive covenant, retention and other employment-related agreements; draft employee-facing policies, handbooks and other resources
Assist in designing and leading training events on employment law and benefits matters
Manage pre-filing demands, including investigating claims, communicating with opposing counsel and negotiating resolution
Draft and/or review pre-litigation and litigation documents, including correspondence with opposing counsel, pleadings and mediation/arbitration statements
Manage outside counsel handling both employment and non-employment litigation, including management of budgets, directing litigation strategy, and reviewing pleadings and other documents
Support employment-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments and divestitures, including due diligence and related integration efforts
Provide advice and counsel on day-to-day issues as well as strategic and systemic initiatives
Respond to attorney demand letters and agency matters, including government-initiated inquiries and audits
Participate in the Legal department and team related projects, as assigned

Job Designation

Remote:
Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring:

Basic
JD from an accredited institution
Admission to a State Bar within the United States and in good standing
8+ years of employment law and litigation practice experience in a law firm and/or in-house corporate legal department

Preferred:

Employment law and litigation experience at a major law firm
California or Washington State Law licenses
Benefits experience, including advising senior leaders and benefits professionals on a range of ERISA, fiduciary compliance, plan governance, and legal compliance matters and related plan documentation
Executive compensation experience in-house and/or at a major law firm
Prior in-house work experience
Track record of working efficiently with a client-service focus in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Experience supporting international business operations and partnering with HR and other professionals across multiple regions
Ability to maintain productive work relationships and work collaboratively with legal area specialists to resolve issues