Staff Producer, Studio Central

DoorDash USA•Seattle, WA

6d•$148,200 - $218,000•Remote

About The Position

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. As the Staff Producer for Studio Central, we're looking for someone who thrives building structure from scratch: getting our design standards documented, adopted, and evolving across every brand and surface, and keeping work moving from brief to delivery across in-house teams, agencies, and cross-functional partners in Product Design, Marketing, and Engineering. You'll help build Studio Central's operating model as we go, setting the standard for how a distributed design organization stays aligned as it scales.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in creative production, design program management, or design operations — with real time spent producing the work, not only running the process around it — including defining operating models rather than inheriting someone else’s, and a track record of taking 0→1 initiatives from concept to adoption at scale and speed
Produced brand and product design work end to end — briefs, budgets, timelines, resourcing, reviews, and delivery — and you know how to protect creative quality while the schedule holds
Can art direct, not just coordinate — you give creative direction that senior designers act on, and you are treated as a creative peer by design leadership rather than the person tracking the schedule
Own the quality bar and can defend it — you know what “good enough to ship” actually means, when to hold the line, and when more polish stops adding value
Hold the line on visual systems, because you can tell a real design problem from an asset request — and you will push back on the latter even when it comes from someone senior
Defined governance and enablement systems for design expression, design systems, or brand guidelines from the ground up — documentation, contribution models, decision rights, and adoption rituals that outlast any single project or reorg — and you’ve done it without letting the system flatten the craft
Set direction in cross-functional ambiguity, building org-wide alignment across Brand, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Localization entirely through influence rather than formal authority
Owned design budgets and agency relationships at scale, setting the standards partner teams operate against while balancing creative excellence with operational rigor
Clear communicator and scrappy problem solver, passionate about improving design culture, team rituals, and embracing new tools—including AI—to help designers and producers do their best work

Responsibilities

Own the Studio Central operating model, defining how brand and design expression work gets requested, scoped, prioritized, and delivered across DoorDash, Deliveroo, Wolt, and 7Rooms
Produce high-visibility design expression work end to end — writing briefs, building timelines, resourcing teams, running reviews, and shepherding assets through final handoff
Art direct the work, not just the schedule — giving creative direction on briefs and reviews, weighing creative tradeoffs against time and budget, and holding the visual quality bar from concept through handoff
Steward our design expression across brand and product, partnering with Brand, Product Design, and Marketing to keep experiences consistent where it matters and intentionally distinct where it should be
Build the governance model for how Studio Central works day to day, including contribution paths, review rituals, decision rights, and a clear escalation path when brand and product needs diverge
Drive cross-functional alignment with Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Localization, translating brand-in-product design decisions into work partner teams can actually execute against
Own vendor and agency partnerships, from selection and onboarding to procurement and performance management, ensuring external partners seamlessly support evolving brand and product needs
Create and maintain the source of truth — playbooks, guidelines, templates, and documentation that make our foundation and expression work easy to find, easy to use, and hard to misapply
Define the tooling and workflow strategy for creative production, ensuring designers and producers have best-in-class platforms for asset management, review, and handoff
Drive AI fluency across the studio, partnering with design and technology leaders to responsibly integrate AI into production workflows, asset generation, and design language maintenance
Measure what’s working, instrumenting adoption, throughput, and quality so we can show the impact of design language investment and unlock operational efficiencies for the teams we serve