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.