Leadership Sourcer
About the Team
The Leadership Recruiting team identifies and cultivates the senior talent that accelerates DoorDash’s operational excellence and long-term growth. We partner with executives across all non-technical organizations to build diverse leadership pipelines that shape how DoorDash scales, innovates, and delivers for our employees, merchants, dashers, and customers. Our team leads high-impact initiatives that elevate our talent strategy and strengthen DoorDash’s leadership bench.
About the Role
As a Leadership Sourcer, you will own the research, market mapping, and proactive engagement strategy for Director-level talent across G&A, Sales, Strategy & Operations, and CXI. You will partner closely with Leadership Recruiters and senior business leaders to define search strategies, generate robust and diverse pipelines, and cultivate long-term relationships with top external leaders. In your first 90 days, you will establish talent landscapes, launch sourcing strategies for active searches, and begin building evergreen pipelines for future leadership needs.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Build and execute research and sourcing strategies for Director-level searches across all non-technical functions, including mapping talent markets and identifying high-impact prospects.
- Partner with Leadership Recruiters and business leaders to develop calibrated job and candidate profiles, ensuring alignment on role requirements and ideal skill sets.
- Deliver consistent, high-quality, and diverse leadership pipelines that meet the evolving needs of DoorDash’s non-tech organizations.
- Cultivate long-term relationships with external senior leaders, maintaining ongoing engagement to strengthen DoorDash’s future leadership bench.
- Use data, insights, and structured reporting to drive search strategy, inform stakeholder decisions, and recommend continuous improvements to sourcing processes.
We’re excited about you because…
- You have 5+ years of sourcing and candidate development experience, including experience supporting leadership or senior-level hiring across non-technical functions (e.g., G&A, Sales, Strategy & Operations, Finance, HR, Legal).
- You bring deep expertise in talent research, market mapping, and candidate identification, and you leverage data to inform sourcing strategy and stakeholder decisions.
- You have a track record of building strong working relationships with recruiting partners and business leaders in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- You excel at cultivating diverse pipelines and developing long-term relationships with leadership candidates and external organizations.
- You are self-motivated, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating with autonomy while navigating complex, ambiguous searches.
We expect this position to be filled by 3/7/26.
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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.
$105,400 - $155,000 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.
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.
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. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. 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. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
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