DocuSign

Sr. Product Manager - Core Services Platform

DocuSign$140K — $206K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a technology-related field (e.g., CS, EE, IT)
  • 6+ years of experience in product management for SaaS with a Master's, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's
  • Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture for enterprise-scale products
  • Proven ability to build comprehensive business cases for new product capabilities
  • Experience in Agile methodologies for product delivery

Responsibilities

  • Own the core platform layer, linking technical investments to customer value
  • Lead the strategic roadmap for Docusign Core Services initiatives
  • Identify high-value business use cases in complex technical systems
  • Define vision and requirements for multi-system platform changes
  • Ensure efficiency in launching new features by managing technical debt
  • Establish success metrics (KPIs) for platform performance with Data Science
  • Understand customer personas and needs through research

Benefits

  • Paid Time Off: Earned time off plus paid company holidays
  • Paid Parental Leave: Up to six months off with child after birth or adoption
  • Full Health Benefits: Employer-paid health plans from day one
  • Retirement Plans: Options with potential for employer contributions
  • Learning and Development: Access to coaching and education reimbursement
  • Compassionate Care Leave: Paid time off for loss or life-changing events
Full Job Description
What you'll do

This role is a critical intersection of technical architecture, business strategy, and go-to-market enablement. As the Senior Product Manager for Docusign Core Services Platforms, you will be the single owner responsible for defining the system strategy that supports Docusign's largest enterprise customers. Your success will be measured by your ability to translate deeply technical, multi-system impact into tangible business outcomes and ensure our most strategic initiatives launch efficiently. You bring deep technical acumen and thrive owning products built on highly complex, distributed platforms, where success depends on understanding system architecture, data models, and failure modes as well as customer and business requirements. You are comfortable reading technical design docs, APIs, logs, and schemas; collaborating closely with architects and engineers to shape resilient, scalable solutions; and asking the right probing questions to uncover upstream and downstream impacts of a change. You can translate intricate, multi-system behavior into clear requirements and tradeoffs, make sound decisions for customer and business in the face of ambiguity, and proactively identify risks, edge cases, and technical debt in large, business critical platforms.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Lead Product Manager .

Responsibility
  • Act as the internal owner and advocate for the core platform layer, connecting technical investment to customer value
  • Lead the Strategy and Roadmap for delivering Docusign Core Services initiatives, serving as the connective tissue between platform strategy and customer experience
  • Profile systematically high-value, innovative business use cases while skillfully navigating the complexity of highly technical, distributed systems (e.g., microservices architecture)
  • Drive the vision and requirements for complex, multi-system platform changes, translating these into clear, developer-ready functional specifications and a delightful customer experience
  • Champion launch efficiency for new features and pricing packages, proactively identifying and clearing technical debt and communication blockers
  • Define and operationalize the success metrics (KPIs) for platform performance and customer-facing usage features in collaboration with Data Science, using telemetry to guide continuous testing and experimentation
  • Develop a deep understanding of key customer personas, struggles, and Jobs to be Done by leveraging primary and secondary research across the customer lifecycle
  • Facilitate requirements definition across teams to create detailed epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, while rigorously identifying dependencies and relative priority with other product managers
  • Ensure seamless collaboration with Program Management, Design, and Engineering to guarantee products ship on time and to quality standards
  • Drive successful go-to-market and adoption by collaborating cross-functionally with Marketing, Pricing, Sales, Support, Legal, Security, and other internal partners


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 in a technology-related area of study (e.g., CS, EE, IT, Systems, MIS)
  • 6+ years of directly relevant experience in product management for SaaS products and services with a Master's degree OR 8+ years with a Bachelor's degree
  • Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture that enables product at high enterprise scale
  • Experience building and gaining consensus on comprehensive business cases for new product capabilities and innovations
  • Experience delivering products using iterative or Agile methodologies


Preferred
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, a closely related advanced degree (M.S., M.Eng, M.IT.), or Master of Business Administration
  • Strong Growth Mindset: A consistent passion for continuous learning and a willingness to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where priorities can shift
  • Sense of Ownership: You are self-directed, manage a complex workload with autonomy, and demonstrate a consistent track record of seeing projects through to launch, adoption, and ongoing health
  • Exceptional executive presence and dynamic communication skills (verbal and written), with the agility to shift seamlessly between strategic vision and technical detail based on the audience
  • Demonstrated Systems Thinking: Proven ability to anticipate downstream impact, connect seemingly disparate technical components, and prioritize investments based on total system benefit
  • Proven ability to build lasting, cross-functional partnerships with both internal (Engineering, UX, Sales, etc.) and external groups


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, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $140,100.00 - $206,775.00 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

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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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