Account Executive - New Verticals, Enterprise Ad Sales

DoorDash

$113K — $166K *
Media
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in digital media sales or advertising
  • Strong understanding of digital ads measurement including attribution
  • Consultative selling approach with a focus on advertiser objectives
  • Proven track record in managing sales pipelines effectively
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience collaborating across various organizational levels
  • Preferred: Background with Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, or Retail advertisers

Responsibilities

  • Build partnerships that create value for both DoorDash and advertisers
  • Manage advertising strategy across New Verticals accounts
  • Drive adoption of ads and promotions offerings
  • Influence product roadmap based on advertiser needs
  • Develop pitch materials and processes for business scaling
  • Create annual and quarterly plans to meet ambitious sales goals
  • Lead end-to-end advertising discussions with New Verticals clients

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 11 paid holidays and paid time off
  • Family-forming assistance and mental health programs
  • Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws
Full Job Description
About the Team

The ad sales team is responsible for the advertising vision, development and growth of our largest advertising partnerships. This team is seeking additional team members to build an industry-leading New Verticals (Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, and Retail) ads and promotions business across DoorDash's core categories. The growing DoorDash ads business will quickly become the single best place for brands to market to local customers, in an ecosystem that benefits all parties.
About the Role

As an Enterprise Account Executive - New Verticals Ads, you will build partnerships that create tangible value for both DoorDash and advertisers. In this role, you will manage the ads strategy across a focused portfolio of New Verticals accounts, and drive adoption of our growing ads and promotions offering. You will also work cross-functionally with account management, marketing, analytics, and product to innovate on our future approach and solutions. You will report into an Industry Manager within the New Verticals category of our Enterprise Sales & Business Development organization. Category specific focus will be retail advertisers (non-CPG).
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • Join a rapidly growing team within the DoorDash Ads & Promos org
  • Lead end-to-end advertising conversations across a portfolio of New Verticals advertisers
  • Drive product/feature adoption, and ultimately grow advertiser value and sustainable revenue for DoorDash
  • Represent advertiser needs to influence our Ads & Promos product roadmap and go to market strategy
  • Manage a robust sales pipeline and create annual and quarterly plans to achieve ambitious goals
  • Co-develop pitch materials and processes to enable future scale of the team and business
We're excited about you because...
  • You are a consultative seller with 6+ years of experience in digital media
  • You're an expert in using data and insights to inform recommendations, rooted in advertiser objectives and business priorities
  • You have a background in Advertising marketing or sales, preferably in the E-commerce space
  • You know the basics of digital ads measurement - from attribution to funnel metrics
  • You have strong written/verbal communication and presentations skills, and experience operating across several levels of an organization
  • You diligently manage a sales pipeline and can juggle both short- and mid-term impact
  • Nice to Have: You have experience working directly with Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, and/or Retail advertisers or similar


Compensation

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for sales commission. 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 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:
  • 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).


The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$113,400-$166,800 USD

The total on-target earnings (base + commissions) for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$189,000-$278,000 USD

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