Director, Marketplace Growth

Director, Marketplace Growth at DoorDash

About the Team

Our US Marketplace team is responsible for growing the DoorDash business in the US, helping customers to discover and order what’s best in their city, merchants to grow their sales, and dashers to find flexible work.

About the Role

The US Marketplace team is looking for a motivated and hands-on operator to be the Director of Marketplace Growth. As a Strategy & Operations Director, you’ll scope, launch, scale, and operate the next generation of DoorDash products and channels to drive new marketplace growth.

You will report into the Growth and Markets team, leading cross-functional collaboration between DoorDash’s product, marketing, finance, and analytics teams to deliver new products to drive marketplace growth. You'll have the opportunity to help define new bets, incubate 0-1 experiments, scope partnership opportunities, and execute on a roadmap to grow the marketplace for focus audiences and other new marketplace bets.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Experiment – Run tests and scale insights. Embrace the challenge of having multiple paths forward and no right answer.
• Build – Explore growth opportunities alongside our partners in Product, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations teams
• Analyze – Shape and define our strategy based on quantitative and qualitative data
• Operate – Figure out how to get from A to B–then actually make it happen.
• Influence – Work cross-functionally across the US Marketplace Organization to help craft roadmaps, secure investment, and partner with other organizations to improve the new user experience
• Grow – Help the business get 1% better every day.

We're excited about you because…

• You have 10+ years of experience in strategy & operations or other operating roles; high-growth startup experience is advantageous
• You have 5+ years of people management experience
• You have experience leading cross-functional projects and hitting goals
• You are comfortable running analysis and manipulating datasets; SQL experience is strongly preferred
• You always look for ways to improve and want to shape the direction of the company
• You can motivate people at all levels across the organization
• You can translate high-level goals into relevant plans
• You love getting to a low level of detail

We expect this position to be filled by 1/6/2026.

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.

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: $197,200—$290,000 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 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. 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.