Content Designer

DoorDash

San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY
full-time mid
Posted 4 days ago
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Summary

Generated 13 days ago

Role Overview

This role is for a Content Designer at DoorDash, focusing on shaping user experiences through clear and thoughtful language across their three-sided marketplace. The designer will contribute to product strategy and user experience for consumers, Dashers, or Merchants.

Key Responsibilities

Lead content design and user experience for entire products and features.
Contribute to overall product strategy, planning, vision, and frameworks.
Manage the end-to-end content design process, aligning with business goals and user needs.
Serve as the content design lead for a specific domain, collaborating with cross-functional partners.
Establish and evangelize content standards and best practices.
Support and collaborate with a close-knit content design team.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in content design.
1+ years of experience in a consumer-facing role.
A portfolio showcasing end-to-end content design projects.
Ability to think at a systems level and simplify complexity.
Strong collaboration skills across diverse functions.

Expected Impact

The successful candidate will significantly influence the clarity, usability, and human-centricity of DoorDash's products, making the platform easier and more intuitive for consumers, Dashers, and merchants. They will play a key role in defining and scaling content design best practices across the organization.

Why Apply

Opportunity to shape the user experience for a leading technology and logistics company.
Collaborate with a supportive and close-knit content design team.
Contribute to a mission-driven company focused on empowering local economies.
This summary was generated from the original job posting (AI-assisted, human-reviewed). For full details, visit the company's site.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary, benefits, and perks for this role

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive benefits package including:

  • • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • • 401(k) with company match
  • • Flexible PTO and holidays
  • • Professional development opportunities
From original job posting

Original Job Description

About the Team

At DoorDash, we’re reimagining how people connect with the things they need — whether it’s a meal, a grocery run, and anything in between. Our audiences — Consumers, Dashers, and Merchants — are at the heart of everything the Design org builds. Our content design team plays a big part in this, with each content designer shaping the experience and bringing our vision to life through clear, thoughtful language that makes our three-sided marketplace easier, faster, and more human.

About the Role

We’re hiring for multiple roles across our audience spaces. You’ll report into a Content Design manager, who’s led by our Head of Content Design, in our Product Design org. We expect this role to be hybrid 1-2 days a week working onsite from one of our offices, and the rest working from home in Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York.

You're excited about this opportunity because you'll…

  • Lead the content design and user experience for entire products and features, including contributing to overall strategy, planning, product vision, and frameworks
  • Lead the end-to-end approach of all content design processes, aligning your work with business goals and user needs, as well as our broader Design system
  • Be the content design lead for a specific domain, working closely with partners in product design, product management, user research, analytics, engineering, and marketing
  • Establish and evangelize content standards and guidelines as we continue to scale our best CD practices
  • Work with a close-knit content design team that supports each other across products

We're excited about you because you… 

  • Have 5+ years of experience in content design, with 1+ years working in a consumer-facing role, and a portfolio of end-to-end projects
  • Think at a systems level and can translate complexity into simple, intuitive experiences
  • Enjoy collaborating across lots of different functions across a company
  • Love the practice of content design, and care about the details
  • Bring clarity to your teams through your understanding of design and product best practices
  • Are excited to represent content design as a role that impacts the entire product, well beyond the words

 

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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 ranges for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

I4

$124,400 - $183,000 USD

I5

$148,200 - $218,000 USD

I6

$176,800 - $260,000 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.

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