About the Team

The Corporate Communications team sits within DoorDash’s broader Communications organization and helps tell the story of how DoorDash empowers local economies in more than 40 countries around the world. We manage the company’s corporate and company storytelling, executive visibility, and media engagement while ensuring we are also speaking directly to our merchants, Dashers, and consumers. As DoorDash continues to grow as a global, multi-product company, our team ensures that our story reflects our innovation, scale, and impact. We’re a collaborative, high-performing group that values curiosity, good judgment, and clear, creative storytelling.

About the Role

The Corporate Communications Associate will play a key role in shaping and sharing DoorDash’s corporate story through media relations, storytelling, digital-first content, and operational excellence. This role is ideal for someone who’s equal parts strategic thinker and detail-oriented executor who thrives in fast-paced environments, values precision, and brings a disruptive mindset to traditional communications. You’ll help connect the dots between strategy and storytelling, ensuring DoorDash shows up with clarity, creativity, and impact on the global stage. You will report into the Manager, Corporate Communications on our Corporate Communications team in our Communications organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Help tell the story of how DoorDash empowers local economies by supporting proactive and reactive communications across business, technology, and financial press.
• Gain exposure to complex business and reputational challenges while learning from a seasoned team that values creativity, sound judgment, and continuous growth.
• Contribute to digital-first storytelling by helping translate corporate announcements and narratives into content ideas that resonate across platforms like LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and TikTok.
• Shape clear, compelling messaging and materials that advance DoorDash’s corporate storytelling and strengthen our reputation with key audiences.
• Draft, edit, and organize communications materials, including press releases, newsroom posts, Q&As, executive bios, and coverage summaries that reinforce DoorDash’s story.
• Support major company milestones and storytelling moments through earned media, owned social content, as well as creative activations that highlight DoorDash’s innovation, ambition, and impact.
• Coordinate interviews, press briefings, and announcement logistics, ensuring smooth execution and consistent messaging across stakeholders.
• Maintain the operational backbone of the Corporate Communications function by managing systems and materials that keep the team running efficiently, including tracking media opportunities and speaking engagements, updating key assets, and maintaining core communications infrastructure.
• Identify and apply AI and automation tools to streamline monitoring, reporting, and data tracking, reducing manual work and creating more space for strategic storytelling. 

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 2–4 years of experience in communications, brand strategy, PR, journalism, or a related field, and you’re comfortable working in fast-paced, creative, or cross-functional environments.
• You’re an adaptable and thoughtful communicator who can turn complex topics into clear, engaging stories that resonate with a wide range of audiences.
• You bring an ownership mindset to your work, combining strategic thinking with strong execution and attention to detail.
• You are digitally fluent and culturally curious, with a natural feel for how storytelling evolves across platforms and audiences.
• You exercise sound judgment and discretion, handling sensitive information and fast-moving situations with composure and care.
• You are interested in exploring how technology, including AI, can improve how teams communicate, track, and measure impact.
• You collaborate naturally, communicate clearly, and enjoy building strong, trusted relationships across teams.
• You take your work, but not yourself, seriously, and bring optimism, humility, and good humor to everything you do.   

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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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