Franchise Account Executive, Ad Sales

DoorDash

$94K — $138K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience in technology sales, preferably in digital media.
  • Experience in consultative selling approach.
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to leverage data and insights for decision-making.
  • Familiarity with digital ad measurement concepts, such as attribution and funnel metrics.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of influencing various organizational levels.
  • Strong organizational ability to manage a sales pipeline and prioritize tasks effectively.
  • Experience with restaurant advertisers is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Build partnerships that generate value for DoorDash and advertisers.
  • Manage ads strategy for Enterprise Restaurant accounts, facilitating client growth.
  • Oversee the full sales cycle from outreach to campaign execution and reporting.
  • Identify and nurture relationships with net-new decision makers while growing existing client revenue.
  • Develop strategic approaches to enhance Ads and Promotions across franchises.
  • Collaborate with Enterprise Account Executives to drive investment in DoorDash offerings.
  • Gather advertiser feedback to inform product roadmap and marketing strategies.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
  • Flexible paid time off policy
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • 11 paid holidays and disability/life insurance coverage.
  • Family-forming assistance and mental health program.
Full Job Description
About the Role

As an Account Executive, Enterprise Restaurant Accounts, you will build partnerships that create tangible value for both DoorDash and advertisers. In this role, you will manage the ads strategy across franchises within a set portfolio of Enterprise Restaurant accounts, and drive growth and adoption of our growing ads and promotions offering. You will work on both developing new business and growing existing business. 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 a Manager, Restaurants in our Enterprise Sales & Business Development organization.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • Be a key builder in our DoorDash Ads & Promos Franchise team
  • Thrive in a high velocity, ambiguous environment where a significant portion of time will be spent on prospecting, contact mapping, pipeline management, and client meetings
  • Own the end-to-end sales cycle, including initial outreach, selling, executing campaigns, reporting, and upsell. This role will have goals based on both outreach activities and revenue
  • Grow revenue with existing clients, and prospect and build relationships with net-new decision makers
  • Help drive the strategy and create playbook for how to expand Ads and Promos across Enterprise Rx Franchisees
  • Work hand in hand with Enterprise Account Executives to develop and execute strategies with Corporate restaurant brands that educate franchisees and ultimately drive investment in DoorDash Ads and Promos
  • Represent advertiser needs to influence our Ads & Promos product roadmap and go to market strategy
  • Co-develop pitch materials and processes to enable future scale of the team and business
  • Thrive in a scrappy, ambiguous environment and have a passion for developing new tactics and processes
We're excited about you because...
  • You are a consultative seller with 3-5 years of experience in technology sales, with digital media experience preferred
  • You're an expert in using data and insights to inform recommendations, rooted in advertiser objectives and business priorities
  • 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 have strong organizational skills, can diligently manage a sales pipeline and can juggle both short- and mid-term impact
  • Nice to Have: You have experience working directly with restaurant 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 equity grants and 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.

$94,260-$138,660 USD

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

$157,100-$231,100 USD

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