Staff Producer Studio Central

About the Team Producers at DoorDash, Deliveroo, Wolt, and 7Rooms are strategic and creative problem solvers, crafting scalable solutions that empower transformative and high-quality design. By driving innovation and excellence, they play a key role in shaping the future of Design at our companies, making a lasting impact on our community and beyond. About the Role Studio Central is a global team within Studio, DoorDash's Product Design organization, supporting DoorDash, Wolt, Deliveroo, and 7Rooms. We own how brand shows up in the product experience, partnering closely with Marketing and Product teams to shape cohesive, high-quality work and to help define the foundations, vision, and future state of design across our portfolio. Our work spans major brand moments, merchandising, and the systems that connect it all. There's no finished playbook here, and that's intentional. As the Staff Producer for Studio Central, we're looking for someone who thrives building structure from scratch: getting our design standards documented, adopted, and evolving across every brand and surface, and keeping work moving from brief to delivery across in-house teams, agencies, and cross-functional partners in Product Design, Marketing, and Engineering. You'll help build Studio Central's operating model as we go, setting the standard for how a distributed design organization stays aligned as it scales. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Own the Studio Central operating model, defining how brand and design expression work gets requested, scoped, prioritized, and delivered across DoorDash, Deliveroo, Wolt, and 7Rooms Thrive in the blank-canvas work as much as the day-to-day: standing up how design operates for a brand-new vertical or business line from zero, not inheriting someone else's playbook. Produce high-visibility design expression work end to end — writing briefs, building timelines, resourcing teams, running reviews, and shepherding assets through final handoff Art direct the work, not just the schedule — giving creative direction on briefs and reviews, weighing creative tradeoffs against time and budget, and holding the visual quality bar from concept through handoff Steward our design expression across brand and product, partnering with Brand, Product Design, and Marketing to keep experiences consistent where it matters and intentionally distinct where it should be Build the governance model for how Studio Central works day to day, including contribution paths, review rituals, decision rights, and a clear escalation path when brand and product needs diverge Drive cross-functional alignment with Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Localization, translating brand-in-product design decisions into work partner teams can actually execute against Own vendor and agency partnerships, from selection and onboarding to procurement and performance management, ensuring external partners seamlessly support evolving brand and product needs Create and maintain the source of truth — playbooks, guidelines, templates, and documentation that make our foundation and expression work easy to find, easy to use, and hard to misapply Define the tooling and workflow strategy for creative production, ensuring designers and producers have best-in-class platforms for asset management, review, and handoff Drive AI fluency across the studio, partnering with design and technology leaders to responsibly integrate AI into production workflows, asset generation, and design language maintenance Measure what’s working, instrumenting adoption, throughput, and quality so we can show the impact of design language investment and unlock operational efficiencies for the teams we serve We’re excited about you because… You have 12+ years of experience in creative production, design program management, or design operations — with real time spent producing the work, not only running the process around it — including defining operating models rather than inheriting someone else’s, and a track record of taking 0→1 initiatives from concept to adoption at scale and speed You’ve produced brand and product design work end to end — briefs, budgets, timelines, resourcing, reviews, and delivery — and you know how to protect creative quality while the schedule holds You can art direct, not just coordinate — you give creative direction that senior designers act on, and you are treated as a creative peer by design leadership rather than the person tracking the schedule You own the quality bar and can defend it — you know what “good enough to ship” actually means, when to hold the line, and when more polish stops adding value You hold the line on visual systems, because you can tell a real design problem from an asset request — and you will push back on the latter even when it comes from someone senior You’ve defined governance and enablement systems for design expression, design systems, or brand guidelines from the ground up — documentation, contribution models, decision rights, and adoption rituals that outlast any single project or reorg — and you’ve done it without letting the system flatten the craft You set direction in cross-functional ambiguity, building org-wide alignment across Brand, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Localization entirely through influence rather than formal authority You’ve owned design budgets and agency relationships at scale, setting the standards partner teams operate against while balancing creative excellence with operational rigor You’re a clear communicator and scrappy problem solver, passionate about improving design culture, team rituals, and embracing new tools—including AI—to help designers and producers do their best work Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis 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.

$176,800 - $260,000 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr DoorDash USA