DocuSign

Business Development Director

DocuSign$151K — $222K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
  • 12+ years related experience with Bachelor's, or 8+ years with Master's.
  • 5+ years in partnerships (ISV, SI, channel) or direct SaaS sales.
  • Experience in executive-level engagement and negotiation.
  • Exceptional complex problem-solving and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategy for Docusign's sales plays with partners.
  • Collaborate with corporate and partner marketing on messaging activations.
  • Align internal stakeholders to shared vision and goals.
  • Create activation plans for sales plays with key partners.
  • Drive partner enablement and awareness globally.
  • Initiate new strategic growth initiatives with partners.
  • Incubate and validate sales plays, creating proofpoints.

Benefits

  • Paid time off and company holidays based on region.
  • Up to six months paid parental leave.
  • Comprehensive health benefits from day one.
  • Retirement plans with employer contributions available.
  • Opportunities for learning, development, and education reimbursement.
  • Compassionate care leave for significant life events.
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Business Development Director is responsible for defining, planning and executing growth initiatives with Docusign partners; working in close collaboration with cross functional teams and key partners.

The core objective for the role is to build a scalable partnerships growth engine around Docusign sales and GTM priorities (sales plays). You will work extensively with cross-functional stakeholders - especially product marketing, partner marketing and global partnerships organization. We are seeking a highly motivated, self-driven, persuasive, result-oriented professional.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr. Director, Global Partner Business Development. This is a zero-to-one building role (vs run the business). It requires high business acumen, creativity, analytical rigor, persuasive communication, drive and high effectiveness in cross functional collaboration.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic ISV Partnerships.

Responsibility
  • Develop strategy for Docusign sales plays with partners
  • Collaborate with corporate and partner marketing to align on messaging, activations
  • Align internal stakeholders to a shared vision, short, medium and long term goals
  • Develop sales plays activation plan with key partners and partner ecosystems
  • Drive awareness and enablement externally with all partners globally
  • Drive new strategic growth initiatives with partners
  • Incubate sales plays with partners - from concept to proofpoints. Put runs on the board
  • Create and publish win-wire, case studies
  • Leverage wins to identify, share patterns of success and best practices
  • Build a playbook for scale


Job Designation

Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation)

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
  • Bachelor's degree qualified
  • Minimum of 12 years related experience with a Bachelor's degree or 8 years of related experience with a Master's degree
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in partnerships (ISV, SI, channel) or direct sales in SaaS
  • Executive level engagement and negotiation experience

Preferred
  • Excellent complex business problem solving and data-driven storytelling skills
  • Willingness and ability to travel as necessary, typical about 20%
  • Strong networking and relationship building skills
  • Excellent analytical & quantitative skills
  • Proactive, creative and innovative thinker
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented, and resourceful
  • Demonstrated ability to build relationships across the company, influence and lead a cross-functional team without direct authority
  • Ability to develop and communicate a strategy as well as short, medium and long range plan


Wage Transparency

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: $157,500.00 - $254,350.00 base salary

Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota: $151,200.00 - $213,600.00 base salary

Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $151,200.00 - $222,450.00 base salary

This role is also eligible for the following:
  • 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

Work Authorization Notice: Please note that we do not provide visa sponsorship or immigration support for this position. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

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About DocuSign

DocuSign is a software company that provides electronic signature technology and digital transaction management services for facilitating electronic exchanges of contracts and signed documents. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. DocuSign's cloud-based platform allows users to sign, send, and manage documents anytime, anywhere, and from any device. The company's customers include individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises across a variety of industries, including real estate, financial services, healthcare, and government. DocuSign has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States and has received numerous awards for its innovative technology and business practices.
Learn more about DocuSign
Size
7,461 employees
Market Cap
$10.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$243.2 million
Founded
2003
5 Year Trend
+40.8%
Revenue
$1.4 billion
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