About the Team
DoorDash is on a mission to transform the future of local commerce. Since our founding in 2013, we’ve grown exponentially to become the leading food delivery platform in the U.S. — and we’re just getting started. As we expand beyond restaurants and deepen our role in local commerce, we are at a pivotal moment in evolving our product experience to the next level.
At DoorDash, our customers are at the center of everything we build. We believe exceptional customer experience is directly tied to long-term business success. Design plays a critical role in shaping that future — serving as a strategic thought partner in cross-functional product development and ensuring we ship high-quality, meaningful experiences at scale.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Design Manager to lead the Discovery design team for the Consumer product.** **You will be responsible for foundational app surfaces within Discovery — a critical part of the golden flow that millions of customers rely on every day. You’ll establish strong principles and design governance to guide teams building on top of these core experiences, while driving the continual evolution of the DoorDash app as we expand deeper into local commerce.
You will report into the Head of Consumer Design on our Consumer team in our Product Design organization.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Define and articulate a bold vision for Discovery, elevating the consumer app into a best-in-class experience
- Drive major redesigns and transformative initiatives that materially impact the business
- Raise the craft bar across visual design, motion, interaction, and systems thinking
- Turn complex marketplace problems into simple, intuitive experiences
- Coach and mentor designers across craft, strategy, and leadership
- Lead through ambiguity, organizational change, and complexity with resilience and optimism
- Advocate for quality and ensure we ship polished, world-class experiences
We’re excited about you because you have…
- 12+ years of design experience, including 5+ years building and leading teams
- A portfolio showcasing large-scale problem-solving and high design caliber (portfolio link required)
- Fluency in modern product design tools, trends, and cross-platform technologies
- A desire to work in one of our hub offices (SF, Sunnyvale, New York, or Seattle) 2x per week
- A strong customer-centric mindset paired with business acumen
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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.
$208,800—$307,000 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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