Lead Counsel, Engineering & Product
Lead Counsel For Engineering & Product Legal Team
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: At Docusign, as we lead the Intelligent Agreement Category, we are looking for a skilled and technically fluent Lead Counsel for our Engineering & Product Legal team. This isn't your typical in-house role; we need you to act as an embedded legal advisor to our engineering and product teams in a dynamic AI enterprise SaaS environment. This role supports our engineering teams from a truly unique position. You will work directly with Docusign's engineering teams who are developing unmatched solutions, driven by proprietary data and insights, built from over 20 years of eSignature leadership. As a steward of this trust, you will drive innovation that reshapes legal technology and the practice of law, upholding our brand while building the next generation of intelligent agreement solutions. This role offers the opportunity to craft innovative legal solutions at the intersection of emerging technology and product development, with a particular focus on AI integration. The ideal candidate will serve as a hands-on legal partner, deeply involved from the ideation phase through product launch. You will be crucial in shaping technical capabilities, supporting the development of intelligent agreement solutions, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks. This position demands a strategic, tech-savvy partnership approach, translating complex regulations into actionable engineering workflows. Where else can you help build the tools of your own future? The future of agreements is now.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director & Deputy General Counsel - Product Engineering, IP and Partner. Responsibility Serve as the core legal partner to engineering, product, and data science teams, providing practical, technically sharp advice from concept ideation through product launch and post-launch iteration Inform on a wide range of IP issues, including patent and licensing strategy (especially for third-party and open-source software, and AI models), and trade secret protection Analyze license terms and ensure compliance for all software and AI model usage Identify and address legal risks associated with new product features and technologies including advising on AI-specific issues such as data sets, AI model training, data governance, and the ethical use of AI Collaborate closely with privacy teams to ensure product compliance with relevant data privacy and security laws and regulations, and counsel on consumer protection and digital marketplace compliance Act as a critical liaison, effectively connecting the dots between engineering/product teams and other legal subject matter experts (e.g., litigation, privacy, regulatory) Serve as a subject-matter expert for core teams and leadership, proactively guiding product decisions Assist in the drafting, maintenance, and training on internal policies and frameworks related to AI and technology which involves creating playbooks for engineering teams and establishing internal best practices, and building privacy-by-design and compliance-by-design frameworks