Senior Brand Designer

About the Team 

DoorDash's mission is to grow and empower local economies. By building 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 those businesses.

To further this mission, DoorDash is building a best in class Creative Department. We will be populated by diverse, eclectic talent that inspires and creates. We take risks, challenge each other, and inspire new ways of thinking. We're here to create pivotal work that we, our partners, and the entire DoorDash community can be immensely proud of. We’re here to do the best work of our lives. 

About the Role

To further our mission, we’re looking for a stellar senior brand designer. You’ll help build, evolve, and scale the DoorDash brand. You have a passion for design and understand the importance of strategic design solutions. You are versatile; whether it’s creating a new brand system, the perfect icon, the right type hierarchy or helping craft the right photography or video direction.

You’ll have opportunities to design across channels and mediums and for multiple audiences, from digital to print to environmental. You will be responsible for creating strategic, conceptual, on-brand designs and look for ways to push our visual branding further. You can express your design process, thinking and solutions clearly. Your work will set the expectations of what great design looks like, not only within the walls of DoorDash, but the entire creative industry. No project is too big or small, you have a high standard and an enthusiasm to do great work no matter where it lives. 

You're excited about this opportunity because...

• Help evolve our design language, systems and guidelines
• Create assets for multiple channels (web, product, email, in-store, OOH, environmental)
• Make in every medium: from print, to digital, to motion/video, to environments and apparel
• Inspire graphic and typographic craft throughout the company 
• Be agile and contribute wherever needed
• Operate at a rapid pace while never compromising the craft
• Contribute to an environment that fosters remarkable design and creativity
• Ensure quality output in everything you do
• Collaborate within the DoorDash Marketing and cross-functional teams 

We're excited about you because...

• 4-6 years of design experience.
• A strong in-house, studio or agency background as well as a proven ability to create work for a variety of audiences, brands, and industries
• Strong understanding of brand design systems and best practices
• You’re a reliable self-starter who can handle multiple projects with minimal oversight
• A portfolio of strong design work across mediums
• Excellence in typography, color, layout, composition, etc.
• Extremely high attention to detail
• Great presentation skills, both internally and client-facing. We want you to produce great designs and be able to express your ideas clearly.
• Expertise in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma and other design tools
• Experience across highly ambitious, agile teams
• Experience with animation is a big plus. 
• Experience with illustration is a plus.

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.

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.

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 those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Compensation

The location-specific base salary range for this position is listed below.  Compensation in other geographies may vary.

Actual compensation within the pay range will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location.  For roles that are available to be filled remotely, base salary is localized according to employee work location.  Please discuss your intended work location with your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being, and that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package, for full-time employees, that includes healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan including an employer match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid time off, paid parental leave, and several paid holidays, among others.

In addition to base salary, the compensation package for this role also includes opportunities for equity grants.

We expect this position to be filled by 3/10/2024.