Director, Platform Innovation Sales
About the Team
The Platform Innovation Sales team is responsible for scaling our Commerce Platform’s nascent bets in restaurant technology. This team partners with our Product, Strategy & Operations, and Account Management teams to build our GTM strategy and execute on ambitious goals for DoorDash’s latest first party technologies.
About the Role
This role is a critical hire who will help drive the adoption and growth of new solutions with our existing and new restaurant partners. As Director of Platform Innovation Sales, you will be responsible for leading a team of front line leaders, driving the sales performance that is the main input to our new product adoption goals. You will do this through hiring, developing, and improving core productivity and strategic efforts, building an inclusive and motivating work environment, and partnering with our product and S&O teams to find new and creative ways to drive adoption. This position will report to the Director, Platform Account Development and will lead team members across the US. This role is flexible on its location and will require frequent travel to support our in-market sales reps.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Find and lead 0 to 1 opportunities. We are constantly enhancing existing products and introducing new products to our suite of Platform services. We are looking for someone who is accustomed to helping find product-market fit and scaling small businesses within large organizations.
- Drive a high performing sales team. You have built and executed pipeline strategies. You know how to coach front line leaders and lean on your customer obsession to regularly meet with prospects, both to understand and resolve their pain points at an individual level and to create system-wide solutions.
- Work across many cross-functional partners, helping to shape GTM motion. This will include Sales Operations for goals and tracking, Finance for deals, S&O for team strategy, goal accountability and product feedback to name a few. Importantly, you embody our one team one fight mentality
We’re excited about you because…
- You are driven by building a 0 to 1 business. You are energized by helping companies find product market fit. Adversity fuels you.
- You are a high achieving sales leader. You have a minimum of 5 years of sales leadership experience, a proven track record of success, and you are excited about driving continued overperformance for a team with ambitious goals.
- You are a great people leader. You are energized by building programs to develop and grow your people and their people, you take pride in making room at the table to improve engagement, and you are accustomed to working with our people business partners to ensure we’re maximizing performance and engagement simultaneously.
We expect this position to be filled by 11/5/25.
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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.
$199,920 - $294,000 USD
The total on-target earnings (base + commissions) for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
$249,900 - $367,500 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.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
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.
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