Principal Product Designer

About this role

About the Team

At DoorDash, design means making experiences for the people who order, the people who prepare, and the people who deliver.

As a Designer at DoorDash, you want to build things that matter to real people. You're at your best when you can move from idea to shipped product quickly, bringing experiences to life that reach and influence users at massive scale. You'll care about whether the product you make solved a real problem for real people, or changed how someone experiences their day.

You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with Engineering and Product Management, dig into the data, and use LLM-powered tools alongside traditional design tools. If the LLM powered tools don’t exist yet, you build them.

About the Role

This role is not 100% remote. We operate in a hybrid model with 1–2 days per week in one of our Design Hubs.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Set the technical direction for Design across your product area — decide what gets built, in what order, and why; connect multiple teams around shared platforms so the work compounds instead of duplicating

• Work on ambiguous problems and turn them into architecture decisions and working systems that teams actually use; earn trust with leadership not through decks, but through prototypes and shipped code that make your point for you

• Stay close to the code and the craft across multiple projects at once — you're not just reviewing, you're building; the work you ship will move real metrics across the product area, not just the team you sit with

• Build the design systems, component libraries, and AI-powered tooling that your product area runs on — prompt libraries, eval pipelines, design-to-code workflows — and make sure people actually use them by writing clear docs, onboarding teams, and iterating based on real feedback

• Hold a high bar for both design and code — your prototypes should be production-ready, not throwaway; spot product opportunities that others miss and help the people around you get sharper at knowing what to build and why

• Grow the team around you — mentor senior designers and managers, help close strong hires, and shape the kind of environment where design engineers do their best work

We’re excited about you because…

• You have a portfolio or repo of work that shows you can design and build at a high level, not just one or the other

• You build in code as naturally as you design — React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks are tools you think in, not things you're learning; you reach for Cursor, Claude, or similar tools to move faster and build things you wouldn't attempt by hand

• You've set direction across a product area before and your influence comes from what you ship, not what you present — people adopt your tools because they're good, not because you told them to

• You care about leverage: you'd rather build a system that makes 20 people faster than ship one great feature yourself

• You have a background in high-growth consumer tech, complex marketplace products, or platform/infrastructure teams where you built tools and systems adopted across multiple teams

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. $208,800 — $307,000 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

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