Senior Counsel, Product Regulated Verticals

Docusign • UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

3d • Remote

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced product lawyer to own the legal and regulatory thesis for Docusign's regulated verticals, and to be the subject matter expert the rest of Product, Engineering, and Product legal draws on when a vertical regulation is the deciding issue on a launch. Real Estate, Health and Life Sciences, and Financial Services are the places where compliance is not a layer applied to a finished product. It is the reason a regulated customer can use Intelligent Agreement Management for records they have to defend to a regulator. That means someone has to decide, before the roadmap is set, what a regulator will accept as a defensible agreement record in each of these markets, and turn that into requirements engineering can build against. You will be that person. You will also be the depth the rest of the product counsel team relies on: they own their launches, you own the vertical regulatory expertise that makes their calls right. This is an individual contributor role with real ownership and real influence over what gets built. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel - Product Engineering, IP and Partner.

Requirements

• Law degree from an accredited law school
• Admitted to practice and in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
• 8+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience
• Experience advising product and engineering teams directly in a regulated technology environment
• Experience translating regulatory requirements into product and engineering requirements that shipped
• Experience in at least one regulated vertical: health and life sciences, financial services, or payments
• Experience serving as an internal expert other lawyers rely on
• Experience advising on or approving customer-facing compliance representations

Nice To Haves

• Experience with electronic signature and transaction law, such as ESIGN, UETA, or eIDAS
• Experience in one or more of 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GLBA, SEC or FINRA recordkeeping, PCI DSS, or NACHA standards
• Experience with Al or Al governance
• Experience building a knowledge base or answer library that other lawyers actually used
• Experience solving hard problems with a close-knit team

Responsibilities

• Own the verticals thesis and requirements
• Define what regulatory defensibility means for the agreement record in Real Estate, Health and Life Sciences, and Financial Services, and translate it into product and engineering requirements at design and roadmap stage rather than launch review, including electronic signature validity, record keeping and retention, in-product disclosures, and the integrity and provenance of the record itself
• Be the subject matter expert for Product legal and own the vertical regulatory depth behind them
• Build the reusable positions, answer library, and interpretation guidance on the questions that recur (21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GLBA, SEC and FINRA recordkeeping, PCI DSS, NACHA), partner directly on the launches where a vertical regulation drives the outcome, and keep the team current as those regimes move
• Keep commitments and capability aligned and assess whether the compliance commitments Docusign makes are actually deliverable in the product as built, define compensating controls where they are not, and maintain the inventory of commitments measured against real capability
• Partner with commercial legal, privacy, and Al governance on commitments raised in customer deals, and run a light intake so routine compliance questions route themselves rather than queueing behind you

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed