Senior Strategic Commercial Counsel and Contract Nerds Lead

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).

Are you a seasoned commercial attorney who loves the "art of the deal" but finds yourself more energized by mentoring, community building, and sharing knowledge than by redlining your 5,000th MSA?

This role offers a unique dual mandate: first, as the Contract Nerds Lead, you will be the primary face, voice, and visionary for one of the legal industry's most respected communities. Operated by Docusign, Contract Nerds is the "water cooler" for thousands of legal professionals. You will be both a practitioner and a thought leader-hosting monthly CLE webinars, managing a roster of expert contributors, and serving as the primary ambassador for the brand across social media and at industry events. Second, you will act as a key player in transforming the commercial function. You're not just leading a community about contracts - you're still doing them. You'll partner with our commercial acceleration and contracting teams to transform and accelerate contracting as an active member of Docusign's Legal team. This is what keeps your content real and your credibility earned.

This is a rare opportunity to step out of conventional corporate grind and into a role that defines how an entire industry learns and connects. You will have the backing of Docusign-the leader in the agreement space-while maintaining the authentic, "nerdy" spirit that has made Contract Nerds a favorite amongst the contracts community.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel - Commercial, Growth & Trust.

Responsibility

• Serve as the primary personality for Contract Nerds

• Host our webinars, lead live community events, and represent the brand on social media platforms

• Curate, coordinate, and host monthly accredited CLE webinars which includes sourcing high-caliber speakers, developing the webinar content, managing their preparation, and-most importantly-having the substantive contracting expertise to step in and lead the session if a speaker falls through

• Maintain a high-visibility presence on LinkedIn

• Post content that drives engagement, promotes upcoming events, and reinforces Contract Nerds as the premier destination for legal and contracting professionals

• Leverage your professional network to recruit top-tier guest authors for the blog and expert speakers for events, ensuring the content remains "aspirational" and highly practical

• Collaborate with Docusign to evolve the community strategy and eventually help identify and mentor future "faces" of the brand as the community scales

• Lead the operations and strategic direction of the overall program, both internally within Docusign and externally across community members, council members, and vendors with marketing, webinar, event planning, and social media support

• Drive deal velocity in support of Docusign's Go-To-Market team, transforming the way the team handles MSAs and related order forms, statements of work, partnership agreements, NDAs and other agreements, ensuring alignment with Docusign's business objectives and risk profile

• Strengthen and optimize the contracting process for scalable impact - work cross functionally and use AI to design smart processes, workflows, playbooks, templates, and GTM collateral

• Fundamentally change how in-house legal work is done in the era of AI

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.

Basic

• 8+ years of experience as a commercial attorney, with a significant portion spent in-house

• Understand the day-to-day pressures of our audience because you've lived them

• Ability to take the mic and keep the audience's trust.If a speaker is underprepared or falls ill unexpectedly

• Experience partnering closely with the Contract Nerds founder and curated legal luminaries to preserve the community's authentic voice while expanding its global reach

• Expierence creating exclusive content, ensuring the platform remains the definitive "water cooler" for industry icons and emerging talent alike

Preferred

• Dynamic public speaking skills- authentic, engaging, and able to distill complex legal concepts into digestible insights

• Posses deep legal network and understand the power of personal branding

• Ability to influence experts to bring them into the Contract Nerds ecosystem

• Knack for creativity, content, branding, and communication

• Appreciate the power of great storytelling, and strive to achieve first-time feats

• Passionate about building and growing a powerful community operations program, you can not only envision great things for the community but you can execute and lead the team towards that vision

• Comfortable with leadership, facilitation, collaboration, and operations oversight

• Deep curiosity and technical fluency in AI-powered legal tech

• An early adopter and internal champion for tools that modernize the practice of law

• Familiar with Mailchimp, Canva, LinkedIn, and Google suite

Pay for this position is based on a number of factors including geographic location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Based on applicable legislation, the below details pay ranges in the following locations:

California: $157,500.00 - $254,350.00 base salary

Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota: $151,200.00 - $213,600.00 base salary

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $151,200.00 - $222,450.00 base salary

Washington DC: $157,500.00 - $222,450.00 base salary

Ohio: $131,900.00 - $186,275.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:

• Bonus: Sales personnel are eligible for variable incentive pay dependent on their achievement of pre-established sales goals. Non-Sales roles are eligible for a company bonus plan, which is calculated as a percentage of eligible wages and dependent on company performance.
• Stock: This role is eligible to receive Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Global benefits provide options for the following:

• Paid Time Off: earned time off, as well as paid company holidays based on region
• Paid Parental Leave: take up to six months off with your child after birth, adoption or foster care placement
• Full Health Benefits Plans: options for 100% employer paid and minimum employee contribution health plans from day one of employment
• Retirement Plans: select retirement and pension programs with potential for employer contributions
• Learning and Development: options for coaching, online courses and education reimbursements
• Compassionate Care Leave: paid time off following the loss of a loved one and other life-changing events

Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you'll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.

Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice

This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.

It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.

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