Senior Product Designer, Merchant Growth & Profitability

DoorDash

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

Generated 12 days ago

Role Overview

This role is for a Senior Product Designer focused on Merchant Growth & Profitability within DoorDash's Merchant Design team. The designer will lead the creation of products and services aimed at empowering small and medium-sized restaurants to succeed and remain profitable on the DoorDash platform.

Key Responsibilities

Develop behavior change engines to scale merchant success across various business sizes.
Build new zero-to-one products and services for merchants.
Drive iterative growth experimentation through cross-functional collaboration.
Design for the entire merchant journey, creating memorable user experiences.
Redefine insights, packages, and motivational systems for merchant success.
Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and content designers.

Requirements

Senior-level individual contributor with 7+ years of work experience.
User-centric mindset with a passion for helping SMBs succeed.
Experience leading both strategic 0-1 bets and rapid growth experiments.
Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous spaces using data and research.
Skillful balance of strategy, research, interaction design, and visual design.

Expected Impact

The expected impact is to significantly empower small and medium-sized restaurants to thrive on DoorDash, ensuring their profitability and continued service to their communities. This role will redefine how merchants engage with DoorDash, making the platform an even more invaluable partner through innovative products and services.

Why Apply

Opportunity to lead design for critical merchant growth and profitability initiatives.
Chance to build innovative 0-1 products and drive impactful growth experiments.
Contribute to empowering local economies and helping small businesses succeed.
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

The Merchant Design team crafts the products and services that merchants rely on every day to succeed on DoorDash. We aim to be an essential partner for every merchant, whether by enhancing in-store operations or streamlining business management. Our team’s purpose is to design seamless, engaging experiences that support merchants at every stage of their journey. With a commitment to design thinking, creativity, and innovation, we bring the heart and soul of DoorDash to life, ensuring the user experience is filled with unique, memorable interactions.

About the Role

As we grow our Merchant Success team, we’re looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead design for Merchant Growth & Profitability. Our mission is to empower small and medium-sized restaurants to thrive on DoorDash, stay profitable, and continue serving their communities doing what they love. 

We’re completely redefining the insights, packages, and motivational systems that set Merchants up for business success on DoorDash and beyond, and we’re charting new ground with fresh 0-1 product offerings and services that make DoorDash an even more invaluable partner for Merchants. 

This role will report into the Head of Merchant Success Design. This role can be based in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. This role is hybrid, with 1-2 days a week in-office and the rest remote.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

  • Develop meaningful behavior change engines that scale across merchants big and small, from your favorite neighborhood spots to fast-growing chains.
  • Build new zero-to-one products, and drive iterative growth experimentation through close collaboration with product managers, engineers, researchers, content design and other product designers on the Merchant Design team.
  • Impact the entire Merchant journey and turn everyday moments into memorable ones

We’re excited about you because…

  • You are a senior-level IC with 7+ years of work experience
  • You have a user-centric mindset and are passionate about helping SMBs succeed
  • You love leading both 0-1 strategic bets and rapid growth experiments, and enjoy bringing clarity to ambiguous spaces by leveraging data and research
  • You care about the details, skillfully balancing strategy, research, interaction design, and visual design to achieve elegantly-crafted solutions 

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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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