Senior Product Counsel, Marketplace

DoorDash USA•Washington, DC

29d

About The Position

DoorDash's Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our collaborative approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. We are a diverse group of lawyers with a shared passion for providing creative and excellent service to our business partners. We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value each other as teammates. We're looking for a team player who can work across the legal team and the broader company. Join us! About the Role DoorDash is hiring an experienced Senior Counsel to join our dynamic legal team at a very exciting time for our expanding business. You will join the Product Legal team that supports both merchant- and consumer-facing products and initiatives for Marketplace, our core third-party delivery platform. You'll have a broad range of responsibilities and will own projects that drive an immediate impact. You’ll provide guidance across a wide range of legal issues domestically and internationally, including consumer protection, competition, regulatory, and privacy. Your clients will include first-in-class product managers, operators, marketers, and engineers, among others. You’ll become an expert on our existing products and will partner with the business to problem-solve and help shape the development of new products that power merchant growth and delight our consumers (TL;DR: exciting stuff!). You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

Requirements

You have a business-first mentality, strong legal judgment, and the ability to make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment with imperfect information.
You are skilled at managing a high volume of requests from a wide range of client teams and balancing competing priorities with limited direction.
You understand complicated areas of law and apply them to a complex business.
You are excited to work on products that incorporate AI and to leverage AI tools to enhance your work.
You are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and have prioritized participating in DEI initiatives in past roles.
You have a philosophy that no task is too big or small and an interest in learning and growth.
You are a self-starter; you’re intrinsically motivated but also a good, collaborative teammate.
You have interests/passions outside of work that are important to you.
You have 8+ years legal experience.
You have prior experience at an in-house legal department.
You are authorized to practice law in the U.S. state where you are located.

Nice To Haves

Previous product counseling experience.
Experience in the tech industry or the on-demand economy.

Responsibilities

Provide solution-oriented advice and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of project development to launch.
Collaborate with business partners to effectively manage legal risks related to product, operational, and engineering initiatives.
Independently develop practical guidance on issues relating to consumer protection, competition, privacy, unfair and deceptive business practices, and marketing.
Work closely with other members of the legal team - across commercial, litigation, corporate, employment, IP, and privacy - to ensure your business partners receive holistic and effective legal guidance across disciplines.
Serve as cross-functional connective tissue and help gain consensus across the non-legal teams you work with.
Build playbooks and establish processes to help scale our advice as a legal team.

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