About the Team
DoorDash’s Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our highly collaborative and supportive approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. We are a diverse group of lawyers with a shared passion for providing creative and best-in-class service to our business partners. We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value and respect each other as teammates. We’re looking for a team builder who can successfully work across the legal team, as well as the broader company. Join us!
About the Role
DoorDash is hiring an exceptional, business-minded commercial lawyer and leader to join our Commercial Legal team. You will manage a team of exceptionally talented and committed lawyers and legal professionals. You and the team will work closely with key partners throughout the company, including Business Development, Sales, and Strategy, to close high-value deals with national brands and open new routes to market. You’ll lead projects that make an immediate impact on our fast-growing, dynamic business, and design processes to automate and streamline lower-touch, high-velocity work. Above all, you’ll help our business partners solve problems and take down roadblocks.
We’re looking for an experienced leader with a strong work ethic, excellent analytical and communication skills, and incredibly solid fundamentals as a lawyer. The ideal candidate will be an empathetic leader who is creative and thinks outside-the-box, is a self-starter who takes ownership over initiatives, and is hands-on taking into consideration the lowest level of detail.
You will report into the Director, Commercial Legal who leads our sales, partnership, and business development legal teams.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Lead, teach, and learn from an exceptional team of lawyers and legal professionals.
- Negotiate strategic deals with merchant partners, automate and streamline simple deals, and invent entirely new kinds of deals in close partnership with the leaders of our business.
- Take on high-impact projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Join a close-knit, caring team of outstanding professionals.
We’re excited about you because…
- You have a track record of leading high-performing teams with strong followership.
- You have deep experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of top-priority commercial agreements.
- You have provided legal support for sales organizations at scale.
- You work autonomously and exercise sound judgment in a fast-paced environment.
- You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
- You love to cheer for your teammates and your team.
- You foster empathy, collaboration, and mutual respect in your practice, and you default toward assuming good intentions about others.
- You are curious, humble (no task is too big or too small), and—through it all—don’t take yourself too seriously.
- 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 J.D. and are admitted to any US state bar.
- You have 12+ years legal experience in a law firm or in-house legal department, including management experience and 5+ years in an in-house legal department.
We expect this position to be filled by 1/13/2025.
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Compensation
The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
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