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Content Designer, New Modes

AT DoorDash
DoorDash

Content Designer, New Modes

Seattle, WA

About The Team

At DoorDash, our customers are at the center of our product strategy, and we believe that an amazing customer experience is the key to our success. The Consumer team designs the mobile apps and website that millions of customers use every day to order meals and more from their favorite local merchants.

Within the Consumer team, the New Modes group envisions different ways to enjoy the convenience of DoorDash beyond delivery, such as DoubleDash, dining out, gifting, gift cards, and payments. If you are passionate about building new use cases and driving 0>1 opportunities, this role is for you!

About the Role

We're looking for a Content Designer to become a key member of one of our most innovative and 0-1 organizations on the consumer app, called New Modes. This is where some of our favorite new DoorDash magic happens, from offering new deals and ways to pay, to creating celebratory gift card strategies, to making the ol' business lunch better. Got an idea for a new feature that might make ordering on the DoorDash app even better? New Modes is there for it.

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As DoorDash expands its horizons and invests in new use cases, your contributions will be pivotal in ares like defining how we connect the online and offline dining experience on our platform; forming strategies around how consumers can get more bundled items delivered; and creating new payment methods on the platform.

You'll report into the Head of Content Design on our Content Design team, in our Design org. We expect this role to be hybrid, with 2-3 days a week onsite.

This position is open for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or New York, and will report to the Head of Content Design on our Content Design team, in our Design org. We expect this role to be hybrid, with 2-3 days a week onsite.

You're excited about this role because you'll...

  • Influence content design and user experiences across consumer app products, contributing to overall strategy, planning, product vision, and frameworks
  • Own content design processes end-to-end, aligning your work with business goals, user needs, and our design system
  • Contribute directly to DoorDash's consumer product strategy and define the future of our service
  • Explore complex, ambiguous problem spaces, working with your team to understand the opportunity, and then chart a path forward
  • Work closely with product design, product management, user research, analytics, engineering, and marketing
  • Improve the consumer experience in areas like payments, gifting, lunch ordering, and other new ways to make DoorDash the go-to for everyday deliveries
  • Create and grow content standards
  • Work with a close-knit content design team that supports each other across products

We're excited about you because you...

  • Are a mid-level IC with 3+ years of experience in content design, with a portfolio of end-to-end projects. Experience with audiences like consumers and restaurants is a bonus! A track record of 0-1 work in your portfolio is a plus, too
  • Have partnered with legal and policy, balancing regulatory needs with user-friendly writing
  • Think at a systems level to turn complexity into simple experiences
  • Enjoy working across lots of different functions
  • Love the practice of content design, and care about the details
  • Bring clarity to your teams through design and product best practices
  • 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 for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays.

Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Washington.

I4

$107,400-$158,000 USD

I5

$129,200-$190,000 USD

I6

$155,000-$228,000 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.

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Job ID: DoorDash-6038140
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • FSA
    • Short-Term Disability
    • HSA
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Life Insurance
    • Long-Term Disability
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Snacks
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Performance Bonus
  • Professional Development

    • Mentor Program
    • Promote From Within
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Leadership Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Founder led
    • Asian founded/led