Director, Design for Brands

About the Team

DoorDash Design website: https://careers.doordash.com/career-areas/design

DoorDash Design blog: https://medium.com/design-doordash

DoorDash blog: https://blog.doordash.com/

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for a Design Director for our Brands business. This role sits at a uniquely strategic intersection of DoorDash's multisided marketplace — bridging the needs of Brands, retailers, and consumers to power discovery, growth, and a more personalized shopping experience across the platform.

This role owns the end-to-end experience that Brands have on DoorDash. In the near term, that means ensuring brands can understand their business through rich sales data and operational metrics, manage their business by pushing catalog changes and maintaining their presence on the platform, and grow their business through ads and promotions. The aggregate brand investment on DoorDash runs into the billions, making this a critical growth lever for the company.

Looking ahead, there are a lot of opportunities to design across all of New Vertical (NV) Growth Products — growing along three dimensions: expanding the customer base from brands to broader brand partners and ultimately to a brands-plus-retailers model and incubating new product surfaces including insights tools, in-store solutions, and more.

Through your leadership and vision, you will help DoorDash become the trusted growth partner for every brand looking to reach customers at scale — while delivering more relevant, personalized experiences to consumers.

This role will report into our Head of Design for Ads & Promotions and lead a major pillar in the org.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

Set the vision for Brands design and define the pragmatic milestones to achieve that vision with your cross-functional team

Deeply immerse yourself into the complexity of the merchant and advertiser design problems, drive meaningful solutions, and make a measurable impact on business

Actively practice and evangelize customer-centric thinking organizationally

Play a strong partner to cross-functional teams like Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Operations to realize the company’s mission

Partner with the design leaders in consumer and driver experiences to build a holistic journey in a three-sided marketplace

Hire the best talents who will raise the bar at DoorDash

Coach and mentor designers on both soft and hard skills and help them develop and achieve career goals

Build a culture that elevates the team, in terms of both performance and morale

Establish the operation model that increases the team’s effectiveness

Align the team’s priorities and deliverables to the company’s overarching strategy and goals

Be an inspirational leader through your creativity, vision, commitment, and persistence

We’re excited about you because…

You thrive in a fast-paced product environment

You exhibit a strong bias toward action

You can think and scale at 10x

You are a proactive problem solver, not just a problem identifier

You are curious, and willing to go above and beyond the job description

You are a respected people manager with high EQ; You know how to motivate a team even in the most challenging times

You attract top talents and hire people who will raise the bar

You are able to stand up for shipping the quality product for customers

You make a great thought partner with cross-functional teams

You are an excellent storyteller and effective communicator

You exude a can-do attitude and enthusiasm

You are self-aware and humble

You have a strong portfolio showcasing the problem-solving skill at large scale and high design caliber

15+ years of experience in design, with minimum 7 years in team building and management

Have managed and scaled a team of 20+

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

See below for paid time off details:

For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.

For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$241,400 — $355,000 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.

Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.

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