Staff Visual Designer- Studio Central

About the Role

At DoorDash we are redefining what it means to be a designer. We are building toward a team of makers, builders, and doers. Between 2005 and 2015, "web designer" became "product designer" and the scope widened. The same shift is happening now, as LLMs expand that scope again, toward strategy on one end and direct execution on the other. As a Staff Visual Designer, you'll practice this build-first way of working with real autonomy: using AI-native tools and code to move from idea to shipped work quickly, and owning craft decisions end to end rather than checking each one against a brief.

You'll join Studio Central, a net-new Product Design team sitting at the intersection of product, brand, and innovation. Studio Central is a global team within Studio, DoorDash's Product Design organization, supporting DoorDash, Wolt, Deliveroo, and 7Rooms. We own how brand shows up in the product experience, partnering closely with Marketing and Product teams to shape cohesive, high-quality work and to help define the foundations, vision, and future state of design across our portfolio. Our work spans major brand moments, merchandising, and the systems that connect it all.

Studio Central's systems and standards are still being built, and everyone building here, regardless of level, has real input into what they become. You'll have full ownership over your own craft and projects, and a real voice in the standards, rituals, and craft bar the whole team ends up working from, not reacting to a framework someone else already finished, but helping shape it as it forms.

We operate in a hybrid working model, 1-2 days out of one of our Design Hubs, the rest working from home.

Your primary impact is craft and output: shipping high-quality, on-brand work across the campaigns, seasonal moments, and merchandising pushes Studio Central owns, with less oversight than earlier-career roles and more responsibility for getting it right yourself. Your secondary impact is revenue, in the same way: the work you ship well, and the craft feedback you give to the designers around you, is part of what raises the expression bar across DoorDash, Wolt, Deliveroo, and 7Rooms as a whole.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Own end-to-end visual craft on brand moments, campaigns, and merchandising pushes, from concept through shipped, production-ready work, with less oversight than earlier-career roles
• Mentor other designers as needed, sharing craft feedback and helping them build range, without formal authority over their work
• Help build and pressure-test the design systems, component libraries, and AI-powered tooling as a team, whether that's proposing the first version or stress-testing someone else's, and speak up early rather than reacting to a finished one
• Practice influencing without authority: bring a strong point of view into rooms with Product, Marketing, and creative stakeholders, and back it up with working prototypes rather than title
• Build real range across the full workflow, from rough concept to production-ready execution, and hand off cleanly to engineering so nothing gets lost in translation

We're excited about you because you have...

• A portfolio that shows strong, considered visual craft, systems thinking, or brand work at a senior level, even if you haven't yet led an org-wide initiative
• Comfort moving between art-direction tools like Figma and Illustrator and shipping in code, or you're closing that gap quickly
• A habit of treating a new tool or technique as an experiment worth running, not a decision you need to get right the first time, you'll ship a handful of rough attempts in something you picked up last week before you'd sit through a training on it
• Experience giving craft feedback to other designers, even informally, and helping them get sharper
• A track record of shipping ambiguous briefs to a high bar without heavy oversight

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.

$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 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.

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview.

How it works:  Metaview assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Metaview or other AI-enabled tool  in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is retained in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy https://help.doordash.com/en-us/legal/article/ax-privacy-notice and applicable state laws. In compliance with New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Metaview is publicly available for review at https://trust.warden-ai.com/metaview/application-review.