ID 2024-25178

Location

US-CA-Remote | US-Remote

Category

Legal

Position Type

Regular

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).

As Contracts Specialist, you’ll provide critical deal and operational support to the Commercial Legal team of Docusign’s Legal Department. This role's primary function will be to help review and manage vendor agreements, support process building and training across the legal team, and manage metrics and reporting to legal department leadership.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Lead Counsel, Procurement.

Responsibility

• Manage, review, and negotiate a broad range of inbound vendor/supplier agreements, including SaaS services, technology licensing, IT/infrastructure, facilities, professional services, consulting, goods, services, and nondisclosure agreements
• Build out dashboards and assist with reporting of metrics associated with legal team review of vendor/supplier transactions (e.g., contract volume, breakdown by business unit, escalations, and cycle time)
• Create and prepare new contract templates, playbooks, and business collateral based on the need of the legal department and the business
• Train, counsel and provide guidance to the Legal department and support global business units to educate and enable successful business and legal practices

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

• Minimum of 3+ years of related in-house legal department and technology-related contracting experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or applicable experience
• Experience with Salesforce.com, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience with Google Workspace

Preferred

• Excellent contract negotiating and drafting skills
• Ability to analyze and negotiate legal risks within contracts and know when appropriate to escalate to attorneys within the legal team or to external resources, as necessary, for further evaluation or approval
• Critical and innovative thinker with excellent business sense and judgment and a track record of business-focused decision making and counseling
• Demonstrated success in similar roles in the Cloud/SaaS software and technology environment with a good understanding of industry principles, concepts, practices and standards of contract review and management
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Experience with building consensus, creating momentum, working cross-functionally with other departments and varying levels of management
• Knowledge of process improvement transformation of infrastructure (templates, playbooks, etc.) with prior success in defining and documenting efficient and scalable solutions
• Knowledge of the IT industry, data protection, information security, privacy, and the latest trends in commercial contracting
• Strong technical skill set is a must; ability to work effectively with MS Office applications and catch on to new technologies quickly is vital to success
• Familiarity with Docusign services, ServiceNow Salesforce, Google Apps, Smartsheet, CLM solutions, and other applications relevant to legal operations and contract management is considered highly valuable

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: $83,500.00 - $120,900.00 base salary

Illinois and Colorado: $79,100.00 - $102,800.00 base salary

Washington and New York (including NYC metro area): $79,100.00 - $108,550.00 base salary

Washington DC: $83,500.00 - $108,550.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for bonus and benefits.

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

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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