Lead Brand Strategist

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and translate brand strategy into a living system, shaping positioning, naming, market insights, and cross-functional alignment to drive customer clarity and business impact.

  • Brand governance: develop naming architecture and messaging that reduce fragmentation and scale across products and experiences.
  • Market insight and health: lead brand health research and market analysis to steer strategy and stakeholder alignment.
  • Creative execution and real-world impact: partner with creative leaders to turn strategy into stories, briefs, and campaigns that energize teams and customers.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and own a multi-year brand roadmap, developing and evolving the brand positioning, architecture, and messaging frameworks that differentiate Docusign in a shifting landscape
  • Own the development and governance of naming and nomenclature across products and experiences, ensuring a clear, consistent, and customer-first system, translating complex capabilities into simple, intuitive language that helps customers quickly understand value, navigate offerings, and make confident decisions, and partner cross-functionally (PMM, Product) to drive alignment, reduce fragmentation, and uphold a scalable naming architecture that reflects the brand strategy
  • Partner with our business strategy ops team to identify emerging markets, analyze market saturation, and pinpoint white-space opportunities for brand growth
  • Lead brand health and sentiment research initiatives, turning raw data into actionable insights, ensuring we have a pulse on how customers, prospects, and the industry perceive us
  • Partner closely with Group Creative Directors to turn complex strategies into inspiring creative briefs, acting as the connective tissue that ensures our daily output and flagship projects align with the overarching brand vision
  • Move strategy from a slide deck to the real world, overseeing the execution of strategic pillars across the Brand & Creative team, ensuring consistency and impact
  • Bring the brand to life in a way that is clear, compelling, and deeply customer-centered, championing bold ideas and high standards, translating strategy into stories and experiences that energize teams and create shared belief, and act as a cultural catalyst across functions, aligning stakeholders around a common vision and motivating the company to deliver work that is both meaningful to customers and impactful to the business

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience in brand strategy (in-house or agency)

Preferred

  • Experience within a high-growth B2B or SaaS environment
  • Comfortable diving into market data and research reports but possess the brand gut to know which insights actually matter
  • Can distill complex market dynamics into a clear, compelling narrative that inspires designers, writers, and executives alike
  • Know how to influence without authority and build strong partnerships with creative leads to drive the best possible work

Benefits

  • 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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Docusign

3.6 Glassdoor

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 IAM, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

Founded in 2003
San Francisco, California, USA
8.1K employees (418 in marketing)
61% recommend to a friend
49% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
61.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.9M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
17%
Direct
57%
Referral
25.4%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
291 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$536.2M
Last Raise
$300M
Secondary Market, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2017
    Secondary Market
  • Mar 2017
    Secondary Market
  • Oct 2016
    Secondary Market

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