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What you'll do The Sr. Employee Listening Consultant is a dynamic role where you will serve as a strategic partner to the Senior Employee Listening Manager, providing critical leadership in the ...

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How much do employee listening jobs pay per hour?

As of May 28, 2026, the average hourly pay for employee listening in the United States is $12.59, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $10.82 and $14.42 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in an Employee Listening role, and why are they important?

To thrive in an Employee Listening role, you need strong analytical abilities, experience in survey design or organizational psychology, and a background in HR or people analytics. Familiarity with employee feedback platforms, data analysis tools like Qualtrics or Glint, and knowledge of survey methodologies are commonly required. Exceptional communication, active listening, and the ability to build trust are crucial soft skills for fostering open dialogue and actionable insights. These skills ensure organizations can accurately capture, interpret, and act on employee feedback to drive engagement and positive workplace change.

How does an Employee Listening professional typically collaborate with HR and leadership teams to drive organizational change?

Employee Listening professionals work closely with HR and leadership to gather, analyze, and interpret feedback from staff through surveys, interviews, and focus groups. They present insights and actionable recommendations to decision-makers, helping shape employee engagement initiatives and culture strategies. Regular collaboration ensures that the voice of employees is integrated into policy and process improvements, and that leadership is kept informed about workforce sentiment. This role often requires balancing confidentiality with transparency to build trust across all levels of the organization.

What is Employee Listening?

Employee Listening refers to the strategies and tools organizations use to gather, analyze, and act on feedback from their employees. This process helps companies understand employee experiences, needs, and concerns, often through surveys, focus groups, and digital platforms. Effective employee listening can improve engagement, inform decision-making, and foster a positive workplace culture. By continuously collecting and responding to employee input, organizations can drive meaningful change and increase overall satisfaction.

What is the difference between Employee Listening vs Employee Engagement Specialist?

AspectEmployee ListeningEmployee Engagement Specialist
Primary FocusGathering employee feedback and insightsDesigning and implementing engagement initiatives
Skills RequiredSurvey design, data analysis, communicationProgram development, communication, leadership
Work EnvironmentHR, HR analytics, organizational developmentHR, employee relations, organizational culture
Common UsageCollecting feedback to inform policiesBoosting morale and improving workplace culture

Employee Listening involves collecting and analyzing employee feedback to understand their needs and concerns, often through surveys and data analysis. Employee Engagement Specialists focus on creating programs and initiatives to enhance employee satisfaction and workplace culture. While both roles aim to improve the employee experience, Listening is more about data collection, whereas Engagement is about action and program implementation.

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Infographic showing various Employee Listening job openings in the United States as of May 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 94% Full Time, 2% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 94% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $26,192 per year, or $12.6 per hour.
Sr. Employee Listening Consultant

Sr. Employee Listening Consultant

Docusign

San Francisco, CA โ€ข On-site

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 14 days ago


Job description

Company Overview
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's Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).
What you'll do
The Sr. Employee Listening Consultant is a dynamic role where you will serve as a strategic partner to the Senior Employee Listening Manager, providing critical leadership in the operationalization and delivery of employee listening initiatives. You will be responsible for guiding and delivering Docusign's Employee Listening Program Strategy, while playing a key role in re-inventing our key Employee Listening initiatives with an AI-forward approach. You will partner with the Sr. Manager to use AI to reimagine how we can best deliver impact-focused reporting and change management that elevates the employee experience and creates measurable business performance. You will drive cross-functional collaboration with a high-impact team of People Analytics Consultants, HRBPs, and various stakeholders to synthesize integrated insights, design and conduct bespoke analyses, drive internal and external research, and architect innovative solutions that create meaningful improvements across Docusign. You will be highly collaborative, data-driven, consultative, technically astute, a solid communicator, intellectually curious, a fast learner, and able to move quickly while keeping focused on multiple high-impact projects.
This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Employee Listening Manager.
Responsibility
  • Guide Employee Listening and People Analytics programs and processes into an AI forward function, leveraging enterprise and functional tools to elevate the employee experience and drive business performance
  • Leverage AI tools and Agents (e.g., Copilot, Gemini, Glean, NotebookLM) to develop data storytelling briefings, reports, and dashboards
  • Manage the end-to-end execution of standardized employee lifecycle surveys-including candidate experience, onboarding, exit, and engagement-while facilitating ad-hoc research projects with a strong customer and employee first orientation
  • Spearhead additional employee listening efforts, including focus group discussions, stakeholder interviews, and passive listening
  • Design and execute bespoke analytical projects to address specific business challenges, integrating qualitative feedback and quantitative metrics to provide actionable insights (e.g., AI Transformation Listening, Organizational Network Analysis)
  • Partner with teammates, leaders, and stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of people issues and challenges, identify the problems to solve using data, and scope survey needs for projects
  • Leverage both descriptive and inferential statistics techniques to support each survey project to maximize impact
  • Present program outcomes and insights to high-level executives and large audiences
  • Incorporate external best practices and other research to enhance data storytelling
  • Foster a culture of action taking by building scalable resources for leaders, managers, HRBPs, and stakeholders through change management techniques (e.g., communications and training)
  • Maintain good judgment when handling sensitive and confidential data
  • Perform other People Analytics analysis projects as assigned based on team need

Job Designation
Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.
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
  • Seasoned Employee Listening or People Analytics Professional with minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 5 years related experience with a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience
  • Demonstrated subject matter expertise, experience, and passion for survey design, project management, AI transformation, and employee listening approaches
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business strategies, needs and priorities into research questions or hypotheses, and select and apply appropriate research methods and/or statistical analysis
  • Experience with People and HR topics such as AI enablement, internal mobility, talent acquisition, and learning and development
  • Experience using Enterprise AI tools & Agents (e.g., Copilot, Gemini, Glean, NotebookLM) to enhance people processes that boost productivity and enhance customer experience
  • Experience with Google workspace products
  • Experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods
  • Experience with employee listening platforms and people analytics platforms (e.g., Glint, Perceptyx, Qualtrics, Visier)

Preferred
  • Highly organized, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
  • Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity and change
  • Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Data Science, Business Analytics, Organizational Behavior or relevant field
  • Ability to analyze data across multiple sources and distill insights to provide partners a meaningful story that drives strategy, action, and decision-making
  • Ability to work autonomously and validated experience leading complex and cross-functional initiatives, processes, or projects
  • Knowledge and experience with applying nudge theory for action taking
  • Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative work-style with the ability to form relationships with all levels of collaborators to drive organizational change
  • Skilled presenter with the ability to translate complex data into clear, decision-ready insights for multiple levels of the organization, including the C-Suite
  • Tech savvy with an ability to quickly learn new tools
  • Experience in a high-growth or tech environment

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: $146,400.00 - $235,375.00 base salary
Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Minnesota: $140,100.00 - $197,925.00 base salary
Washington, Maryland, New Jersey and New York (including NYC metro area): $140,100.00 - $206,775.00 base salary
Washington DC: $146,400.00 - $206,775.00 base salary
Ohio: $122,500.00 - $172,975.00 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.
Life at Docusign
Working here
Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what's right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.
We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you'll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.
Accommodation
Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at accommodations@docusign.com.
If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at taops@docusign.com for assistance.
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States Not Eligible for Employment
This position is not eligible for employment in the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It's important to us that we build a talented team that is as diverse as our customers and where all employees feel a deep sense of belonging and thrive. We encourage great talent who bring a range of perspectives to apply for our open positions. Docusign is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes hiring decisions based on experience, skill, aptitude and a can-do approach. We will not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected category.
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