
Software Development · 84k people
Manager, Paid Growth Marketing
Posted 26 Oct
What’s this role about? Own the end-to-end paid marketing operations for co-marketing merchant priorities, including planning, launch, and performance management. Lead cross-functional teams and agency partners to drive strategic campaigns while maintaining clear communication with leadership.
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Company
About DoorDash At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.
Responsibilities
- intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash connects
- people with the local businesses they care about, helping grow businesses and
- the communities that support them. To further this mission, we’re looking for an
- experienced paid media operator to join our Consumer Marketing team at a pivotal
- time for DoorDash Ads and paid co-marketing.
- The Cx Ads Paid team plans, launches and measures paid media campaigns with
- brand and CPG partners, working alongside Ads Integrated Marketing, Sales,
- Partnerships and our agency partners. The team is growing, and this person will
- help shape how paid marketing operates as it scales.
Qualification
- Co-Marketing Paid Media strategy and operations in the US as it pertains to
- supporting Co-Marketing Merchant priorities. This role will support +20
- strategic campaigns across $XXM covering CPG, Restaurant, and New Vertical
- industries. You will set the operating model, make the decisions that keep the
- campaign on track against launch timing, ROAS performance, and advertisers
- commitments. You will be the voice of Paid in cross-functional forums, arriving
- with data, a clear point of view and a recommendation, and you will lead agency
- and platform partners as the single accountable owner. This is your opportunity
- to influence and own a Paid marketing function as a lead, touching channel
- decision making and strategy with Director + visibility.
- through launch, in-flight management and recap
- Make independent decisions on campaign operations and bring a clear
- recommendation to cross-functional discussion: For example channel mix,
- creative, and optimization strategies.
- Problem Solving: When there are unknowns, be the central driver to align on
- things like budgets, partnership commitments, and required approvals
- Lead agencies and platform partners such as our Media Agency, Meta and The
- Trade Desk, from brief to delivery
- Drive strategic projects end to end, including building channel playbooks,
- process revamps and the test-and-learn agenda
- Lead and develop a team of 2 (with opportunity to scale), delegating
- ownership of processes and planning capacity against the campaign calendar
- Must have experience interacting with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, etc.)
- and the ability to learn new tools quickly.
- Leadership Communication Opportunity: Keep leadership and partners informed
- with proactive updates, early risk flags and escalations that come with a
- proposed solution
- Deliver recap reports and performance readouts with a clear narrative and
- benchmarks, ready for Marketing and Sales review
- You’re a decisive, results-oriented marketer who has led paid media programs and
- XFN teams. You form a point of view from data, act on it, and keep the right
- people informed along the way. You are comfortable operating in ambiguity,
- delegating work you should not be doing yourself, and holding partners to a high
- bar. You have experience managing leadership and can write and speak concisely
- to such an audience
- management or marketing operations
- Experience managing agencies and paid channels such as CTV/OLV, programmatic,
- paid social, and DOOH
- Strong command of campaign measurement, including ROAS, benchmarking and root
- cause analysis of performance
- Track record of owning cross-functional projects and decisions without direct
- authority
- Sound judgment on when to decide, when to align and when to escalate
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with examples of leadership-ready
- updates and recommendations
- Experience building and scaling processes, trackers and playbooks
- [Preferred] Experience in CPG, QSR or marketplace co-marketing, and with
- tools such as Sigma, iSpot or Monday.com
- We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s
- something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
- We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it.
- Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do
- on every project, every day.
- We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if
- it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job,
- no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
- We are customer obsessed - Our mission is to grow and empower local
- economies. We are committed to our customers, merchants, and dashers and
- believe in connecting people with possibility.
- We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making
- our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.
- We offer great compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits.
- We expect this position to be filled by 12/12/26.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance
- Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring
- regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including
- If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon
- initial connection.
- How it works: Metaview assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related
- qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is
- designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making;
- trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and
- oversight, and DoorDash does not use Metaview or other AI-enabled tool in a
- manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to
- discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in
- any protected activity under applicable law.
- Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is
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