Emea Legal Counsel

**Company Overview**:
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they agree. Our flagship product, eSignature, is the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from virtually anywhere, at any time. Today, more than a million customers and a billion users in over 180 countries use DocuSign to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.

**What You'll Do**:
The legal team helps DocuSign achieve strategic goals, manage legal risk, and preserve the legal and ethical integrity of the company. We are regularly involved in critical, complex operations, and partner across the business to solve challenging problems to support our growth and progress globally. We focus on providing thorough analysis and offer legal advice to foster sound decision-making and ensure compliance with legal and other relevant standards and certifications.

DocuSign is a Software as a Service Company (SaaS) looking for Legal Counsel with experience in the EMEA region, with particular emphasis on commercial transactions in France, to join its EMEA legal department. This position will support the rest of the DocuSign Global Legal Team on legal, commercial and go-to-market (GTM) matters primarily within France, but also in other countries within the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region, as needed.

EMEA Legal Counsel (Commercial) will regularly interact with:

- Internal stakeholders, such as Sales, Marketing, Product, and Legal and other HQ functions
- Business customers and partners
- Other members of the Global DocuSign Legal Department
- Regulators, lawmakers and policy makers in government, standards bodies, and business entities

As a part of our Legal & Risk Management team, you help to further strategic goals, manage risks, and preserve the legal and ethical integrity of the company. Constantly immersed in critical, high-level operations, you partner across the business to solve challenging problems and support our growth and progress around the world. The Legal & Risk Management team focuses on providing thorough legal and security analysis and advice to foster sound decision-making, and on ensuring compliance with legal and other relevant standards and certifications.

This position is an Individual Contributor role, initially reporting to the Head of Global Contracts within the DocuSign Legal Department and is designated Flex.

**Responsibility**
- Review, draft, revise and interpret SaaS and other technology licensing and partnership agreements, vendor and work for hire contracts, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements
- Negotiate fair and favorable terms for confidential information, indemnification, liability, proprietary rights, security and data privacy
- Advise stakeholders of contract risks and appropriate resolution strategy when customer’s purchase order terms and conditions deviate from DocuSign’s standard terms and conditions
- Educate internal stakeholders, prospects and customers on legality and compliance issues
- Summarize technical & non-technical information to key stakeholders and executives to facilitate an understanding of contract scope, nuances, deviations, key terms, and acceptance of contract
- Manage and meet aggressive internal SLAs, and help manage priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Support the risk management function and regulatory compliance, including identifying and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in France, in areas such as e-signature regulations, data privacy, data security and others
- Assist and advise on our growth and expansion in France, including localization of agreements and business practices.
- Serve as resource on legal requests related to our France business and provide decisive, practical guidance that balances business objectives with legal risks
- Work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, product, business development, and operations teams on a variety of legal matters to support our efforts in the France market
- Work closely with the global legal team and manage local external counsel, as needed, to provide globally aligned legal advice.
- Stay current on relevant industry, commercial, IP, privacy, and other laws, regulations, and developments to adapt our policies and processes accordingly and provide the most up-to-date guidance
- Have the ability to serve as a regional SME legal resource to drive business in France, and also support the transactional needs in other countries within EMEA, as needed
- Partner with the other GTM functions to develop strategy and support growth in France

**What You Bring**:
**Basic**
- A minimum of 5 years’ relevant legal experience
- Strong commercial experience, including understanding Contracts Management principles and ability to craft and implement legal policies and training, in addition to experience reviewing, revising, drafting, negotiating and advising on sophisticated and complex contracts, such as services agreements, sale