Associate Manager, Paid Co-Marketing Strategy

Doordash • San Francisco, CA

13d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.)

Benefits

• 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.
• 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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees