About the RoleDoorDash is looking for a Director of Customer Experience Strategy & Operations to define and scale the operating systems that shape how consumers, Dashers, and our broader marketplace experience DoorDash.
This leader will own a broad portfolio across customer experience strategy, support operations, policies and processes, safety-critical contact handling, and cross-functional CX initiatives across business lines including New Verticals, International, Dasher, Marketplace, and DashPass. You will lead a high-performing S&O team, partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Fraud, Operations, and senior business leaders, and translate ambiguous customer and operational problems into scalable solutions.
We are especially excited about leaders who bring an AI-native operating mindset: people who have used AI, automation, lightweight tooling, or internal apps to solve real problems, improve team productivity, and redesign manual workflows. This role is an opportunity to apply that builder mindset at marketplace scale.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...- Define the vision, metrics, and operating principles for a best-in-class customer experience across consumers, Dashers, and emerging business lines.
- Lead a high-impact S&O team responsible for turning defining the customer experience using a multitude of inputs
- Redesign how CX work gets done by combining people, process, product, data, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Analytics, Fraud, Marketplace, New Verticals, International, Dasher, and DashPass teams to shape the experience across DoorDash's most important audiences.
- Operate from strategy to lowest-level detail: setting executive-level direction while staying close to data, user journeys, case reviews, and frontline operational reality.
- Build and scale new processes, tools, and mechanisms that improve quality, reduce friction, and help teams move faster.
We're excited about you because...- You have 10+ years of experience solving complex problems in strategy, operations, product operations, customer experience, marketplace operations, consulting, or a similarly analytical operating role.
- You are an AI-native operator - you have solved productivity problems and are able to dig into data quickly, and surface insights to translate to action
- You are energized by working within a 24/7 global operations organization to scale new processes and initiatives
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and can scale yourself to work on different types of problems - from case reviews to setting high level vision and strategy
- You have experience collaborating with multiple different types of stakeholders - from Product to Operations to Analytics
- You have built, developed, and raised the bar for high-performing teams.
- Bachelor's Degree required, MBA or Master's Degree a plus
CompensationThe 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 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.
$170,000-$250,000 USD
