Associate Manager, Paid Co-Marketing Strategy
About The Position
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. 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
- 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)
- medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- disability and basic life insurance
- family-forming assistance
- a mental health program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
