Senior Product Counsel, Dasher + Logistics

About the Team

DoorDash's Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our collaborative approach to counseling, always with a bias for action.

We are a diverse group of lawyers with a shared passion for providing creative and excellent service to our business partners.

We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value each other as teammates.

We're looking for a team player who can work across the legal team and the broader company. Join us!

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

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 our Dasher-facing products and services, as well as the DoorDash logistics engine.

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 consumer protection, worker classification, competition, regulatory, and privacy.

Your clients will include first-in-class product managers, operators, designers, researchers, analysts, and engineers, 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, services, and business lines that power local economies.

Your focus will be empowering high-quality and efficient deliveries while building the best gig platform for financial mobility and flexibility on the planet.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will

• Be integrated with product managers, operators, designers, researchers, analysts, engineers, and others to help them solve problems and achieve business objectives while minimizing risk.
• Provide solution-oriented advice and legal direction to a wide variety of teams from the initial stages of project development to launch.
• Independently develop practical guidance on issues relating to consumer protection, worker classification, competition, regulatory, and privacy.
• Work closely with other members of the legal team - across commercial, litigation, corporate, employment, 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 a great communicator, capable of translating complex legal concepts into understandable, tactical guidance and then building consensus around it.
• 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 prior in-house experience.
• You have 8+ years legal experience in a law firm and / or in-house legal department.
• You have a JD & are admitted to any state bar.

Bonus Points

• Previous product counseling experience.
• Experience in the tech industry or the on-demand economy.

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.

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York and Washington.

$190,400 $280,000 USD

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.

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.

Statement of Non-Discrimination : In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on : race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital / domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.

We value a diverse workforce people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

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