Manager, Paid Growth Marketing

Sunnyvale, CA (On-site)

$143K/yr – $210K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own end-to-end paid marketing operations and lead cross-functional campaigns, with responsibility for planning, execution, and recap, while guiding agencies and platform partners and developing the team through strategic projects.

  • Oversee end-to-end paid marketing operations and campaign lifecycle
  • Lead cross-functional partnerships with agencies and platforms
  • Drive strategic initiatives and team development

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own the end to end paid marketing operations, from intake and planning through launch, in-flight management and recap
  • Make independent decisions on campaign operations and bring a clear recommendation to cross-functional discussion: For example channel mix, creative, and optimization strategies.
  • Problem Solving: When there are unknowns, be the central driver to align on things like budgets, partnership commitments, and required approvals
  • Lead agencies and platform partners such as our Media Agency, Meta and The Trade Desk, from brief to delivery
  • Drive strategic projects end to end, including building channel playbooks, process revamps and the test-and-learn agenda
  • Lead and develop a team of 2 (with opportunity to scale), delegating ownership of processes and planning capacity against the campaign calendar
  • Must have experience interacting with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) and the ability to learn new tools quickly.
  • Leadership Communication Opportunity: Keep leadership and partners informed with proactive updates, early risk flags and escalations that come with a proposed solution
  • Deliver recap reports and performance readouts with a clear narrative and benchmarks, ready for Marketing and Sales review

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of experience in paid media, performance marketing, campaign management or marketing operations
  • Experience managing agencies and paid channels such as CTV/OLV, programmatic, paid social, and DOOH
  • Strong command of campaign measurement, including ROAS, benchmarking and root cause analysis of performance
  • Track record of owning cross-functional projects and decisions without direct authority
  • Sound judgment on when to decide, when to align and when to escalate
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with examples of leadership-ready updates and recommendations
  • Experience building and scaling processes, trackers and playbooks
  • [Preferred] Experience in CPG, QSR or marketplace co-marketing, and with tools such as Sigma, iSpot or Monday.com

Preferred

  • [Preferred] Experience in CPG, QSR or marketplace co-marketing, and with tools such as Sigma, iSpot or Monday.com

Benefits

  • 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).
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DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly and always learn and reiterate to support merchants, Dashers and the communities we serve. 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. Our leaders seek the truth and welcome big, hairy, audacious questions. We are grounded in our company values, and we make intentional decisions that are both logical and display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to Merchants to Customers.

Founded in 2013
San Francisco, California, USA
75K employees (1,014 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$143K/yr – $210K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Paid Acquisition median pay in the United States

$125K/yr

Most earn $87K to $176K. Based on 67 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
372.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$12.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.5%
Direct
47.9%
Referral
11.7%
Social
4.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~75.5K

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