About the Role

DoorDash is hiring an experienced Senior Counsel to join our dynamic legal team at a very exciting time for our expanding business. You will join the Product Legal team that supports Dasher Logistics, DoorDash Commerce Platform, and Labs. You will support AI Data Services and Dasher Tasks, which sit under the Dasher Logistics org.

You'll have a broad range of responsibilities and will own projects that drive an immediate impact. You'll provide guidance across a wide range of legal issues domestically and internationally, including worker classification, AI and data governance, privacy, consumer protection, intellectual property, and regulatory. Your clients will include first-in-class product managers, operators, engineers, and data scientists, among others. You'll become an expert on our existing products and will partner with the business to problem-solve and help shape the development of new products and services - from the non-delivery tasks Dashers complete to the AI data services that power the next generation of foundation model development AI applications (TL;DR: exciting stuff!).
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...

• Provide solution-oriented advice and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of project development to launch.
• Collaborate with business partners to effectively manage legal risks related to product, operational, and engineering initiatives.
• Independently develop practical guidance on issues relating to worker classification, AI and data governance, privacy, intellectual property and data licensing, and consumer protection.
• Work closely with other members of the legal team - across commercial, litigation, corporate, employment, IP, and privacy - to ensure your business partners receive holistic and effective legal guidance across disciplines.
• Serve as cross-functional connective tissue and help gain consensus across the non-legal teams you work with.
• Build playbooks and establish processes to help scale our advice as a legal team.

We're excited about you because...

• You have a business-first mentality, strong legal judgment, and the ability to make decisions in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment with imperfect information.
• You are skilled at managing a high volume of requests from a wide range of client teams and balancing competing priorities with limited direction.
• You understand complicated areas of law and apply them to a complex business.
• You are excited to work on products that incorporate AI and to leverage AI tools to enhance your work.
• 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 philosophy that no task is too big or small and an interest in learning and growth.
• You are a self-starter; you're intrinsically motivated but also a good, collaborative teammate.
• You have interests/passions outside of work that are important to you.
• You have 8+ years legal experience.
• You have prior experience at an in-house legal department.
• You are authorized to practice law in the U.S. state where you are located.

Bonus Points

• Previous product counseling experience.
• Experience in the tech industry or the on-demand economy.
• Familiarity with AI/ML development, including data sourcing, labeling, and the legal issues around training data and model development.
• Experience with data licensing, IP, or commercial agreements.
• Knowledge of worker classification frameworks and gig/independent contractor issues.
• Privacy expertise (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, biometric and sensitive data).
• Experience advising on novel products or business lines without clear precedent.

We expect this position to be filled by 8/17/2026.

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 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.

$214,200-$315,000 USD