Associate Manager, Integrated Marketing, Consumer - Local (Emerging Markets)

About the role

DoorDash’s mission is to grow and empower local economies. The Consumer Integrated Marketing team is seeking a strategic, entrepreneurial, and data-driven marketer to lead local-first strategies rooted in key consumer insights. In this role, you will own the strategy and execution of integrated marketing campaigns, and develop and scale our emerging local markets strategy to accelerate DoorDash’s growth in priority markets.

Responsibilities

• Oversee local-first GTM marketing strategies for emerging local markets, including development of strategic briefs, leading execution across channel and on-the-ground activations, managing budgets, and guiding creative recommendations.
• Build scalable marketing playbooks to accelerate growth in emerging local markets.
• Use consumer insights to develop locally relevant messaging, creatives, channel strategies, and campaign goals that resonate with priority audiences and capture growth in emerging markets.
• Lead the end-to-end testing and launch of new marketing channels and grassroots initiatives—setting data-driven goals, optimizing performance, and scaling successful programs to drive DoorDash customer acquisition in key local markets.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across workstreams by communicating progress toward goals, sharing performance results, and proactively identifying risks and mitigation plans.
• Facilitate weekly updates with core teams across performance, brand, creative, insights, analytics, and strategy & operations, and support monthly leadership updates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher; MBA a plus.
• 4+ years of experience as a Marketer, preferably leading local-first marketing strategies across a mix of performance, retention, and/or integrated marketing.
• Ability to synthesize audience and market insights into clear implications to inform end-to-end GTM marketing strategies, including creative direction, channel optimizations, and net new local campaign launches.
• Strong bias for action, with the ability to leverage intuition when data or results are incomplete to keep work moving forward.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills, able to organize critical information for senior leaders, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Creative and entrepreneurial mindset; you enjoy tackling unsolved problems, building, scaling, and finding solutions with limited resources.
• Ability to connect with people, build relationships, and influence with authority.
• Love for collaborating and working on a team with extensive cross-functional experience partnering with groups across marketing (CRM, paid media, creative, etc.), analytics, product, strategy & operations, etc.

Pay

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado, is $83,000—$122,000 USD. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. In addition to base salary, this role includes opportunities for equity grants.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave (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, and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and a mental health program.