Studio Central Product Designer
Job Description
DoorDash is looking for a Studio Central Product Designer to own end-to-end visual craft for brand moments, campaigns, and merchandising pushes. This hybrid role in San Francisco, CA emphasizes autonomy, less oversight than earlier-career positions, and direct impact through production-ready work, strong prototypes, and clean engineering handoffs. You will also help strengthen the design ecosystem through design systems, component libraries, and AI-powered tooling, while mentoring designers through craft feedback.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end visual craft on brand moments, campaigns, and merchandising pushes, from concept through shipped, production-ready execution with less oversight than earlier-career roles
- Mentor other designers as needed by sharing craft feedback and helping them build range, without formal authority over their work
- Help build and pressure-test design systems, component libraries, and AI-powered tooling as a team, proposing early versions or stress-testing work to surface issues before completion
- Influence across Product, Marketing, and creative stakeholders without authority, using prototypes and a strong point of view backed by working artifacts
- Build real range across the full workflow, from rough concept to production-ready execution, then hand off cleanly to engineering so nothing is lost in translation
Requirements
- Portfolio demonstrating strong, considered visual craft, systems thinking, or brand work at a senior level, even without having led an org-wide initiative
- Comfort moving between art-direction tools such as Figma and Illustrator, and shipping in code, or ability to close that gap quickly
- Habit of treating new tools and techniques as experiments, including shipping rough attempts early before deeper training
- Experience providing craft feedback to other designers, including informally, and helping them sharpen their work
- Track record of shipping high-quality work from ambiguous briefs with minimal oversight
Tools you’ll use
- AI-native tools
- Figma
- Illustrator
- Metaview
Compensation and work model
Salary: USD 176,800 to 260,000 per year.
Hybrid: 1-2 days out of one of our Design Hubs, with the remainder from home.
Benefits
- Premium healthcare
- Wellness expense reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
Equity, inclusion, and accommodations
- Statement of Non-Discrimination: DoorDash does not discriminate or harass 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.
- Fair Chance considerations: In line with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable regulations, DoorDash will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with the law.
- Accommodations: If you need accommodations, inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice about AI and automated tools
DoorDash uses an automated recruitment tool called Metaview. Metaview supports the recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics to assist rather than replace human decision-making, with meaningful human review and oversight. Data collected is retained in accordance with the Candidate Privacy Policy: https://help.doordash.com/en-us/legal/article/ax-privacy-notice, and applicable state laws. For New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Metaview is available at: https://trust.warden-ai.com/metaview/application-review.