Director, Commercial Legal at DoorDash USA

About the Team

DoorDash’s Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our highly collaborative and supportive approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. We are a diverse group of lawyers with a shared passion for providing creative and best-in-class service to our business partners. We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value and respect each other as teammates. We’re looking for a team builder who can successfully work across the legal team, as well as the broader company. Join us!

About the Role

DoorDash is hiring an exceptional, business-minded commercial lawyer and leader to join our Commercial Legal team. You will manage a team of exceptionally talented and committed lawyers and legal professionals. You and the team will work closely with key partners throughout the company, including Business Development, Sales, and Strategy, to close high-value deals with national brands and open new routes to market. You’ll lead projects that make an immediate impact on our fast-growing, dynamic business, and design processes to automate and streamline lower-touch, high-velocity work. Above all, you’ll help our business partners solve problems and take down roadblocks.

We’re looking for an experienced leader with a strong work ethic, excellent analytical and communication skills, and incredibly solid fundamentals as a lawyer. The ideal candidate will be an empathetic leader who is creative and thinks outside-the-box, is a self-starter who takes ownership over initiatives, and is hands-on taking into consideration the lowest level of detail.

You will report into the Director, Commercial Legal who leads our sales, partnership, and business development legal teams.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead, teach, and learn from an exceptional team of lawyers and legal professionals.
• Negotiate strategic deals with merchant partners, automate and streamline simple deals, and invent entirely new kinds of deals in close partnership with the leaders of our business.
• Take on high-impact projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Join a close-knit, caring team of outstanding professionals.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have a track record of leading high-performing teams with strong followership.
• You have deep experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of top-priority commercial agreements.
• You have provided legal support for sales organizations at scale.
• You work autonomously and exercise sound judgment in a fast-paced environment.
• You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
• You love to cheer for your teammates and your team.
• You foster empathy, collaboration, and mutual respect in your practice, and you default toward assuming good intentions about others.
• You are curious, humble (no task is too big or too small), and—through it all—don’t take yourself too seriously.
• You are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and have prioritized participating in DEI initiatives in past roles.
• You have a J.D. and are admitted to any US state bar.
• You have 12+ years legal experience in a law firm or in-house legal department, including management experience and 5+ years in an in-house legal department.