Senior Compensation Design Specialist
About the Team
The Compensation team designs and manages programs aimed at motivating and retaining top talent and enabling our Pay for Performance philosophy. Our work impacts every employee globally through the programs we administer. As part of the Total Rewards function, the Global Compensation team strives to provide a consistent and inclusive experience for all DoorDash employees across the globe, regardless of their location, background, or job responsibility.
About the Role
DoorDash is seeking a Principal, Compensation Design who is a first principles thinker to join a team focused on running our cycles, designing our site, and building our job architecture and ranges. You will be an integral part of the team that redesigns and maintains DoorDash’s compensation infrastructure as the business scales.
This year is particularly exciting as you will be a key contributor to merging three different international company job architectures. You will help us build a cycle that is heavily automated, focused on advanced tooling, and designed to create a superior experience for both employees and leaders.
You’re excited about this role because you’ll:
- Contribute to Global Integration: Act as a key contributor in the merger of three international company job architectures into a unified DoorDash framework.
- Support Architecture & Ranges: Join the team responsible for designing our site, maintaining job architecture, and building out our global ranges.
- Build Automated Cycles: Help develop and run compensation cycles with a heavy focus on tooling and automation to ensure a seamless experience for leaders and employees.
- Administer Total Pay: Help develop and communicate total pay programs, including base salary and equity, that align with company strategy and industry benchmarks.
- Drive Data-Led Design: Use your analytical skills to make data-driven decisions on the structure and design of compensation programs.
- Collaborate Globally: Partner with HR Business Partners, recruiters, and Finance to manage global compensation matters such as offers, promotions, and budgeting.
We’re excited about you because:
- First Principles Mentality: You approach problems by breaking them down to their core truths rather than simply relying on industry standards.
- Global Compensation Expertise: You have a background in global compensation and understand the complexities of international pay structures.
- Architecture Experience: You have experience with the design and maintenance of job architectures and pay models at rapidly changing companies.
- Expert Storyteller: You have strong data analysis skills and can effectively present findings to diverse audiences.
- Adaptable Operator: You thrive in fast-paced environments, are comfortable with ambiguity, and can adapt to changing business needs.
- Experienced Professional: You have 8+ years of compensation experience in either a consulting or in-house role.
- Educational Foundation: You hold a bachelor’s degree in economics, business, finance, or another STEM discipline.
- Tech Savvy: You have experience with Workday (preferred) and program management (preferred).
We expect this position to be filled by 7/11/26.
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.
$132,600 - $195,000 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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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