Stories written by Jason Lemkin
Jason
Lemkin is CEO and co-founder of EchoSign. Lemkin previously
was an executive in residence at Storm Ventures and served as
president, chief
business officer and co-founder of NanoGram Devices, now a subsidiary
of
Greatbatch, Inc. He previously served as vice president, corporate
development
at NeoPhotonics Corporation and as senior director of corporate
development at
BabyCenter.com, now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
Lemkin
also served as corporate counsel to leading technology companies at
Venture Law
Group and as a management consultant at Pathway Ventures. He holds a
Bachelor
of Arts degree with Magna Cum Laude designation from Harvard
University; a JD
and Order of the Coif from University of California Berkeley, and he
completed
the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Executive Management Program.

Human resource teams face a number of challenges when it comes to recruiting the right people for key positions. HR executives must attract reliable pools of potential employees, read scores of resumes, design application and interview processes, and ultimately determine which candidates are most likely to succeed on the job. This is time-consuming work. Once it’s complete, the last thing any company wants is further delay due to slow paperwork completion. In the final stages of recruitment and hiring, e-contracts can mean the difference between getting a new employee onsite in a matter of days.