Account Executive, New Verticals

DoorDash USA • Los Angeles, NY

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About The Position

About the Team The ad sales team is responsible for the advertising vision, development and growth of our largest advertising partnerships. This team is seeking additional team members to build an industry-leading New Verticals (Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, and Retail) ads and promotions business across DoorDash’s core categories. The growing DoorDash ads business will quickly become the single best place for brands to market to local customers, in an ecosystem that benefits all parties. About the Role As an Enterprise Account Executive - New Verticals Ads, you will build partnerships that create tangible value for both DoorDash and advertisers. In this role, you will manage the ads strategy across a focused portfolio of New Verticals accounts, and drive adoption of our growing ads and promotions offering. You will also work cross-functionally with account management, marketing, analytics, and product to innovate on our future approach and solutions. You will report into an Industry Manager within the New Verticals category of our Enterprise Sales & Business Development organization. Category specific focus could be across convenience, alcohol, grocery, and/or retail.

Requirements

• You are a consultative seller with 3-5+ years of experience in digital media
• You’re an expert in using data and insights to inform recommendations, rooted in advertiser objectives and business priorities
• You have a background in Advertising marketing or sales, preferably in the E-commerce space
• You know the basics of digital ads measurement - from attribution to funnel metrics
• You have strong written/verbal communication and presentations skills, and experience operating across several levels of an organization
• You diligently manage a sales pipeline and can juggle both short- and mid-term impact

Nice To Haves

• You have experience working directly with Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, and/or Retail advertisers or similar

Responsibilities

• Join a rapidly growing team within the DoorDash Ads & Promos org
• Lead end-to-end advertising conversations across a portfolio of New Verticals advertisers
• Drive product/feature adoption, and ultimately grow advertiser value and sustainable revenue for DoorDash
• Represent advertiser needs to influence our Ads & Promos product roadmap and go to market strategy
• Manage a robust sales pipeline and create annual and quarterly plans to achieve ambitious goals
• Co-develop pitch materials and processes to enable future scale of the team and business

Benefits

• 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
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees