Senior Strategic Commercial Counsel and Contract Nerds Lead

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

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

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

• 8+ years of experience as a commercial attorney, with a significant portion