Engineering Manager, Notification Intelligence & Experience

About the Team

DoorDash is looking for an Engineering Manager with product sense to lead teams within Growth in the Bay Area or Seattle. This team is responsible for handling a number of initiatives that will fuel DoorDash's growth in the coming years and beyond. These teams consist of engineers from backend, frontend, mobile and ML backgrounds and partner with a number of cross functional orgs throughout DoorDash. The Growth team is responsible for the products that help us acquire millions of new DoorDash customers every quarter and drive millions of incremental orders every month. 

About the Role

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with expertise in Growth, Product Engineering, or Notifications to help scale DoorDash’s customer engagement through smarter, more impactful notifications. As a key technical leader, you’ll partner closely with Product, Analytics, Content, Marketing, Ops, and Engineering to craft personalized experiences that drive meaningful customer actions. You’ll lead a team to define and execute the roadmap - whether that’s determining the right moment and channel to inform a customer about a relevant promo, or helping shape the future of our notification infrastructure. Your work may span applying LLMs to content generation, leveraging ML to optimize send time and targeting, scaling our platform, and introducing new engagement notifications tailored to user needs. If you're excited about growing customer impact through intelligent and scalable notification experience, this role is for you.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Build and scale a talented team of backend engineers, working alongside Product, Analytics, Frontend, and ML partners to shape the future of customer engagement
• Create an environment where engineers grow through mentorship, ownership, and execute with high standards of engineering excellence
• Foster a culture of curiosity and lead a data-driven problem solving, where insights guide decisions and innovation
• Own the problem spaces, direction and tech vision in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Have opportunities to innovate with cutting-edge AI technologies (e.g., LLMs, recommendation models) to elevate our customer engagement experience
• Help shape a culture that thrives on diving into details, obsessing over customer impact, and delivering meaningful results

We’re excited about you because…

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field
• 7+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years of engineering management
• Proven ability to build and scale customer-facing products in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Good product sense with strong a track record of partnering effectively with Product, Design, and Analytics to shape user experiences
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially in working with non-technical stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into scalable solutions
• A passion for mentoring and growing engineers, and leading teams through change with clarity and empathy
• A bias for action and deep ownership—balancing high-level vision with attention to execution and details

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders - Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies.
• We are doers - We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions that will lead our company and our industry is what we do -- on every project, every day. 
• We are learning - We’re not afraid to dig in and uncover the truth, even if it’s scary or inconvenient. Everyone here is continually learning on the job, whether we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute.
• We are all DoorDash - The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights. 
• You grow here faster than other places because we move and grow fast. You practice muscles like leading through chaos, ruthless prioritization, and crisis management.

 

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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.$193,800—$285,000 USDAbout 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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.

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