DocuSign

Growth AI Lead - Prospecting Science Director

DocuSign$186K — $262K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of relevant experience in revenue operations, growth engineering, or applied AI; 5+ years in B2B SaaS
  • Hands-on experience with AI/ML workflows, prompt engineering, or NLP
  • Ability to translate business strategy into technical specifications and iterate on delivery
  • Experience managing or mentoring technical team members
  • Strong commitment to quality in production systems
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering and sales teams
  • Familiarity with GTM stack components like Salesforce and Outreach

Responsibilities

  • Own the capability roadmap for AI prospecting agents and their development sequence
  • Co-design the entire prospect pipeline from signal detection to message delivery
  • Prioritize engineering requests to align with high-impact experiments
  • Build and deploy AI workflows without needing engineering support
  • Ensure production quality and approve all agent outputs before prospect engagement
  • Aggregate and prioritize requests from Global Directors for coherent engineering backlogs
  • Manage and provide direction to Growth AI Builders, reviewing configurations
  • Collaborate on measurement design connecting agent outputs to revenue outcomes
  • Maintain a shared roadmap for stakeholder visibility on projects

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off including holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave up to six months
  • Comprehensive health benefits from day one
  • Retirement plans with employer contributions
  • Learning and development opportunities including coaching and reimbursement
  • Compassionate Care Leave for personal losses
Full Job Description
What you'll do

Docusign is building one of the most advanced AI-powered prospecting programs in enterprise SaaS a global program spanning 4 regions, 12 languages, and all customer segments. The Prospecting Science function applies agentic AI, prompt engineering, and systematic experimentation to transform how enterprise sellers find, reach, and engage buyers. This role leads what gets built - defining the capability roadmap for AI agents that prospect autonomously, designing signal-to-message architectures, and governing quality across a growing portfolio of active experiments spanning inbound, outbound, and partner-sourced motions. You will own the intersection of GTM strategy and AI engineering - translating business intent into agent behavior, and agent output into measurable pipeline.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr Director, Growth Global Prospecting and Inbound Sales.

Responsibility
  • Own the capability roadmap, deciding what AI agents, prompt architectures, and signal workflows get built - and in what sequence
  • Co-design and govern the full prompt-to-prospect pipeline, signaling detection context enrichment message generation • quality validation delivery orchestration
  • Provide prioritization input to DTS on engineering requests, ensuring build capacity aligns with the highest-impact experiments
  • Build and ship self-serve AI workflows directly (prompt architectures, prospecting sequences, signal logic) without requiring engineering sprints
  • Govern production quality and approve all agent deployments before they reach prospects and own the quality bar
  • Aggregate requests from Global Directors across segments and motions filter, prioritize, and sequence so the engineering team receives a coherent backlog rather than competing demands
  • Manage and develop Growth AI Builders, providing technical direction and reviewing all production-bound configurations
  • Partner with the S&O Strategy Lead on measurement design, attribution models, and investment narratives that connect agent activity to pipeline and revenue outcomes
  • Collaborate with DTS Product Management on architecture decisions and system design for complex, multi-agent workflows
  • Maintain a shared roadmap artifact so all stakeholders - engineering, operations, adoption, and business leads - have real-time visibility into what's being built and what's shipping


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
  • 12+ years of relevant experience including 5 or more years in revenue operations, growth engineering, marketing technology, or applied AI; and at least 5 years in a B2B SaaS environment


Preferred
  • Hands-on experience building AI/ML-powered workflows in production prompt engineering, agent orchestration, or applied NLP
  • Proven ability to translate business strategy into technical specifications and ship iteratively
  • Experience managing or mentoring technical ICs (engineers, data scientists, or technical PMs)
  • Strong opinions on quality: you've governed systems where output quality directly impacts customers
  • Comfort operating cross-functionally you'll work daily with engineering, product, sales operations, and frontline sellers
  • Familiarity with modern GTM stack components (Salesforce, Outreach, Clay, enrichment APIs, intent platforms)


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:

Washington: $186,100.00 - $262,825.00 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.
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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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