Design Lead

Design Lead

We're looking for a Design Lead who can bridge brand storytelling with growth-focused design inside Superette, the Creative Studio at DoorDash. Leading a team of designers, you'll develop work that both drives conversion in the short term and builds brand equity in the long term.

You'll be equally comfortable optimizing CRM and performance campaigns for measurable results as you are elevating DoorDash's visual expression and design language. Partnering across Brand, Growth, and Marketing, you'll deliver design that is strategically sharp, emotionally resonant, and unmistakably on-brand.

You'll report to the Head of Design within Marketing, shaping how our studio integrates performance rigor with brand craft.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary design team, providing at least 2+ years of hands-on leadership experience.
• Deliver creative that balances brand storytelling with growth performance across CRM, lifecycle, paid media, and campaigns.
• Drive conversion-focused assets while ensuring alignment and maintaining consistency of visual identity with DoorDash's brand standards and design language system.
• Collaborate with program managers, marketers, and copywriters to turn insights into impactful creative.
• Use data and insights to optimize creative while elevating emotional resonance and long-term equity.
• Identify and experiment with new formats, storytelling techniques, AI-powered workflows, and design systems that expand how DoorDash shows up across touchpoints.
• Champion AI adoption within the team by integrating tools that improve speed, scalability, and creative innovation.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in brand and growth design to evolve our creative impact.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional design experience spanning brand and growth marketing.
• 2+ years of leadership experience managing and mentoring design teams.
• Portfolio showcasing both brand-building work (campaigns, identity systems, storytelling) and growth-focused design (CRM, lifecycle, paid social, A/B testing).
• Hands-on expertise creating impactful content across web, email, ads, presentations, and campaign assets.
• Ability to articulate and defend strategic design decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Experience translating complex business concepts into clear, compelling visuals.
• Strong collaboration skills; thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
• Proficiency with Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (especially After Effects).
• Background in technology, media, or digital advertising is a plus.

We expect this position to be filled by 12/17/25.

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.

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$129,200 - $190,000 USD