Associate Manager, Paid Co-Marketing Strategy

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, we’re looking for a marketer who will sit at the intersection of growth, brand, product, and operations, to develop integrated marketing strategies for our consumer business at DoorDash. The consumer marketing team is a group of marketing generalists responsible for translating business goals into marketing strategies and serving as the general manager across the organization to bring those strategies to market.

About The Role

The Ads Co-Marketing Paid team is seeking a strategic, data-driven, and entrepreneurial marketer to support media planning operations. Reporting to the Ads Paid Lead this role will focus on campaign planning, strategic channel recommendations, cross-functional coordination, and performance recaps for full-funnel Co-Marketing campaigns.

You’ll help evolve our approach to campaign execution, enabling deeper impact for DoorDash and our Merchant partners, and drive long-term business growth through scalable, insight-led marketing initiatives.

What You’ll Do

Media Planning & Execution: Lead day-to-day media planning operations, including channel strategy, campaign coordination, and stakeholder management.
Strong Cross-functional Project Management: Is able to lead strategic projects end to end, owning internal, agencies, finance, partnerships, creative, and channel teams alignment on goals, timelines, and deliverables.
Senior Stakeholder Management: Candidate has experience leading high visibility projects with XFN senior stakeholders (Senior Manager - Director level). Strong spoken and written communication of complex projects or performance updates
Campaign Strategy: Develop full-funnel media strategies with agency partners to drive Merchant brand growth and revenue.
Analytics & Reporting: Leverage measurement tools to assess campaign performance, conduct root cause analyses, and produce clear post-campaign reports.
Operational Ownership: Establish new processes & playbooks required to optimize internal cross-functional team operations and with external agency partners, and develop best practices
Channel Fluency: Work with analytics and media partners to develop a roadmap for testing and experimentation (i.e. Advertiser incrementality testing, new product formats, beta features for monetization etc.)

We’re Excited About You Because You Have

Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher, MBA a plus
Experience: 5+ years in media planning and buying across Social (Meta, TikTok, and Snap and Brand channels from CTV to audio; agency or in-house experience at a high-growth consumer brand preferred.
Strategic mindset: Candidate has experience leading large internal projects that span beyond their own internal team. Can span experimentation, planning, and organizational shifts
Cross-Functional Skills: Proven success collaborating with marketing teams including brand, content, production, analytics, and external partners.
Communication Excellence: Clear and succinct written communication and comfort in presenting to executive audiences and cross-functional partners. Able to communicate complex work to both internal teams and external agencies
Analytical Acumen: Confident analyzing complex datasets, synthesizing insights, and applying them to campaign strategy—while also taking initiative when data is limited.
Entrepreneurial Spirit: Creative thinker who thrives in ambiguity, builds new systems, and finds solutions with limited resources.
Data Driven: Possess a data-driven mindset and are not afraid to get your hands dirty and get deep into the data yourself, with experience sifting through a detailed analysis and synthesizing actionable insights to make data-driven decisions. You do this while still having a strong bias for action and being able leverage your intuition when you don’t have all the data you might need.

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash because…

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 learners - 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.

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.

$108,800—$160,000 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.

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.