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The Corporate Communications team sits within DoorDash’s broader Communications organization and helps tell the story of how DoorDash empowers local economies in more than 40 countries around the world. We manage the company’s corporate and company storytelling, executive visibility, and media engagement while ensuring we are also speaking directly to our merchants, Dashers, and consumers. As DoorDash continues to grow as a global, multi-category, multi-product company, our team ensures that our story reflects our innovation, scale, and impact. We’re a collaborative, high-performing group that values curiosity, good judgment, and clear, creative storytelling.
About The Role
DoorDash is building the next generation of local commerce, including emerging initiatives like agentic commerce, autonomous robotics, and in-store software. These efforts require a nimble “build in public” mentality to reach and engage with technical talent, the terminally online, policymakers, market observers, and prospective partners. We’re hiring a hybrid operator who can combine executive storytelling, editorial judgment, and distribution craft to help our individual and organizational accounts show up and participate in real-time conversations, primarily on X. This is not a traditional executive communications role. It is not press-office PR. It is not brand social. It’s a judgment-heavy, social-first role at the intersection of corporate strategy and internet culture focused on influence, credibility, and distribution. Think fight promoter meets growth hacker meets clip merchant.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
- Provide strategic and tactical counsel to executives on their social media presence, specifically on X.
- Support the social media presence for several founder, executive, and corporate accounts: build a repeatable content pipeline, draft posts/threads, and advise when to engage (and when not to).
- Assess existing and new accounts: network mapping, engagement strategy, amplification plans, and experiments to help the right stories travel to the right people.
- Launch new accounts and build their audiences as needed, defining the voice, content franchises, guardrails, and distribution operating system.
- Translate complex topics into platform-native thinking (earnings context, AI strategy, autonomy, regulation, marketplaces, our technology roadmap).
- “Build in public” for emerging initiatives: share progress without over-sharing (partner with Product/Engineering to package demos, milestones, and learnings).
- Work cross-functionally with Brand Social, Policy, Legal, IR, and Employer Brand to move quickly while staying accurate.
- Build a learning loop: define what “good” looks like (beyond likes), track outcomes, run post-mortems, and refine strategy.
We’re Excited About You Because…
- You have 6+ years of experience building and scaling social-first narratives for a high-visibility company, product, or principal, and owning strategy, voice, drafting, and distribution (especially on X).
- You have a proven ability to grow and sustain a credible presence on X (brand or principal) with measurable distribution outcomes.
- You have exceptional writing and editing (you can write like a human, in an executive voice, at speed).
- You have strong judgment coupled with a high risk tolerance (you understand second-order effects, escalation, and how to operate under public-company constraints).
- You have deep curiosity about technology and the economy (you are comfortable with finance and policy audiences and technically fluent conversations).
- You have an operator mindset (you don’t just post, you build a system—formats, pipeline, measurement, and iteration).
- You’re comfortable pushing back on senior leaders with clarity and good instincts.
- X is the primary platform. YouTube, Substack, Threads, and LinkedIn are secondary channels.
- Traditional comms or PR experience is not required.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey
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. $136,000—$200,000 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.
About The Team
The Corporate Communications team sits within DoorDash’s broader Communications organization and helps tell the story of how DoorDash empowers local economies in more than 40 countries around the world. We manage the company’s corporate and company storytelling, executive visibility, and media engagement while ensuring we are also speaking directly to our merchants, Dashers, and consumers. As DoorDash continues to grow as a global, multi-category, multi-product company, our team ensures that our story reflects our innovation, scale, and impact. We’re a collaborative, high-performing group that values curiosity, good judgment, and clear, creative storytelling.
About The Role
DoorDash is building the next generation of local commerce, including emerging initiatives like agentic commerce, autonomous robotics, and in-store software. These efforts require a nimble “build in public” mentality to reach and engage with technical talent, the terminally online, policymakers, market observers, and prospective partners. We’re hiring a hybrid operator who can combine executive storytelling, editorial judgment, and distribution craft to help our individual and organizational accounts show up and participate in real-time conversations, primarily on X. This is not a traditional executive communications role. It is not press-office PR. It is not brand social. It’s a judgment-heavy, social-first role at the intersection of corporate strategy and internet culture focused on influence, credibility, and distribution. Think fight promoter meets growth hacker meets clip merchant.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
- Provide strategic and tactical counsel to executives on their social media presence, specifically on X.
- Support the social media presence for several founder, executive, and corporate accounts: build a repeatable content pipeline, draft posts/threads, and advise when to engage (and when not to).
- Assess existing and new accounts: network mapping, engagement strategy, amplification plans, and experiments to help the right stories travel to the right people.
- Launch new accounts and build their audiences as needed, defining the voice, content franchises, guardrails, and distribution operating system.
- Translate complex topics into platform-native thinking (earnings context, AI strategy, autonomy, regulation, marketplaces, our technology roadmap).
- “Build in public” for emerging initiatives: share progress without over-sharing (partner with Product/Engineering to package demos, milestones, and learnings).
- Work cross-functionally with Brand Social, Policy, Legal, IR, and Employer Brand to move quickly while staying accurate.
- Build a learning loop: define what “good” looks like (beyond likes), track outcomes, run post-mortems, and refine strategy.
We’re Excited About You Because…
- You have 6+ years of experience building and scaling social-first narratives for a high-visibility company, product, or principal, and owning strategy, voice, drafting, and distribution (especially on X).
- You have a proven ability to grow and sustain a credible presence on X (brand or principal) with measurable distribution outcomes.
- You have exceptional writing and editing (you can write like a human, in an executive voice, at speed).
- You have strong judgment coupled with a high risk tolerance (you understand second-order effects, escalation, and how to operate under public-company constraints).
- You have deep curiosity about technology and the economy (you are comfortable with finance and policy audiences and technically fluent conversations).
- You have an operator mindset (you don’t just post, you build a system—formats, pipeline, measurement, and iteration).
- You’re comfortable pushing back on senior leaders with clarity and good instincts.
- X is the primary platform. YouTube, Substack, Threads, and LinkedIn are secondary channels.
- Traditional comms or PR experience is not required.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provide Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023, and resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: Covey
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. $136,000—$200,000 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.
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Frame your ops experience in measurable outcomes
DoorDash interviews for Operations Lead roles heavily on metric-driven impact. Before applying, document specific results from past roles, such as cost reductions, fulfillment rate improvements, or team scaling outcomes, so your materials align with their data-oriented hiring lens.
Target DoorDash's market expansion teams directly
DoorDash frequently hires Operations Leads to support new city launches and vertical expansions like DashMart or Wolt. Roles tied to active expansion markets move faster through the pipeline, giving you more time to negotiate sponsorship terms before offer deadlines tighten.
Clarify your visa category before the offer stage
DoorDash sponsors multiple visa types for Operations Leads, including H-1B, E-3, TN, and F-1 OPT. Know which category fits your nationality and timeline before your offer conversation, so you can confirm compatibility without slowing down the process or appearing unprepared.
Understand how OPT cap-gap affects your start date
If you're on F-1 OPT and your H-1B is selected in the lottery, cap-gap provisions let you stay authorized through September 30 while USCIS adjudicates. Confirm your I-20 end date and OPT expiration early so DoorDash's recruiting team can sequence your start date correctly.
Use Migrate Mate to surface live Operations Lead openings
DoorDash's open Operations Lead roles are distributed across multiple teams and cities, making it easy to miss relevant postings. Use Migrate Mate to browse current openings filtered by sponsorship eligibility, so you're applying to positions where your visa type is already supported.
Get your Labor Condition Application timeline right
For H-1B and E-3 filings, DOL must certify the Labor Condition Application before USCIS can process the petition. At DoorDash, this step is typically handled by in-house immigration counsel, but confirm with your recruiter that the LCA is filed well before your intended start date.
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Does DoorDash sponsor H-1B visas for Operations Leads?
Yes, DoorDash sponsors H-1B visas for Operations Lead positions. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation given its requirements around analytical skills and business operations expertise. Because H-1B is subject to the annual lottery, your employer must file in the spring registration window for an October 1 start. DoorDash's in-house immigration team manages this process, but you'll want to confirm timing with your recruiter early in the offer stage.
How do I apply for Operations Lead jobs at DoorDash?
You can find current Operations Lead openings on DoorDash's careers page or through Migrate Mate, which filters listings by visa sponsorship eligibility. Applications typically require a resume and are followed by a recruiter screen, a case study or analytical exercise, and multiple rounds of interviews focused on operational problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and data interpretation. Tailoring your application to a specific team or market vertical at DoorDash improves your chances significantly.
Which visa types does DoorDash commonly sponsor for Operations Lead roles?
DoorDash sponsors a broad range of visa categories for Operations Leads, including H-1B, H-1B1 for Chilean and Singaporean nationals, E-3 for Australian citizens, TN for Canadian and Mexican nationals, and F-1 OPT and CPT for recent graduates. For longer-term permanent residency, DoorDash also supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways. The right category depends on your nationality, degree, and timeline, so clarify your eligibility before your offer conversation.
What qualifications does DoorDash look for in an Operations Lead?
DoorDash typically expects a bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related field, though advanced degrees can strengthen your profile. Beyond credentials, they prioritize demonstrated experience managing operations at scale, comfort with ambiguous and fast-moving environments, and strong analytical skills. Experience in logistics, supply chain, marketplace operations, or consulting is frequently cited in their job descriptions. Familiarity with SQL or data tools is a practical advantage in most Operations Lead interview processes.
How do I time my visa sponsorship process when joining DoorDash as an Operations Lead?
Timeline depends on your visa category. E-3 and TN visas can often be processed within a few weeks, making them well-suited for candidates who need to start quickly. H-1B requires lottery selection in March and a USCIS adjudication period before an October 1 start date. For any category, the DOL Labor Condition Application must be certified before the petition is filed. Align your expected start date with your recruiter as early as possible so DoorDash's immigration counsel can sequence each step without delays.
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