Senior Counsel, Competition & Litigation

DoorDash USA; New York, Washington (NY, District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Paid parental leave

Wellness program

Paid time off

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Counsel, Competition & Litigation to advise product and business teams across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo. This role focuses on antitrust strategy, M&A considerations, and regulatory inquiries worldwide, with emphasis on Europe and cross-border matters.

You will move quickly, translating complex antitrust concepts into actionable guidance while supporting litigation and ensuring compliance across three brands.

Qualifications

• JD and bar admission required to practice law.
• 7-9+ years at a top law firm or in-house, with generalist antitrust experience.
• Advising on mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments, including filings and clearance.
• Experience handling regulatory inquiries with EC/UK CMA/DOJ/FTC or others.
• Ability to provide practical, business-minded guidance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong product counseling skills and clear written/oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Serve as antitrust advisor to product, business, and corporate development teams with fast, practical counsel.
• Advise on competition aspects of M&A and strategic investments, collaborating with Corporate Development.
• Manage international antitrust/regulatory investigations and inquiries.
• Help build international competition compliance program, including trainings and policies.
• Support competition-related litigation tasks such as document review and witness prep.
• Coordinate with policy and government relations on regulatory developments.

Skills

Antitrust law

M&A counseling

Regulatory investigations

Policy liaison

Cross-border experience

Communication skills

Education

J.D. degree

Job description

Senior Counsel, Competition & Litigation

New York, NY; Washington, D.C.

About the Team

DoorDash’s Legal team has built a strong 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 and legal professionals with a shared passion for providing creative, best-in-class service to our business partners. The Competition & Litigation team advises DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo on antitrust, competition, and litigation matters across every market we operate in.

About the Role

DoorDash is looking for a Senior Counsel, Competition & Litigation to join our growing Legal team and work globally across the DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo brands. Reporting to the Director, Competition & Litigation, you’ll be a generalist antitrust attorney who can move fast: advising product and business teams in real time, supporting M&A and strategic investments alongside our Corporate Development team, and driving forward regulatory investigations and inquiries, with a particular focus on Europe.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Serve as a trusted antitrust/competition advisor to product, business, and corporate development teams, delivering fast, practical counsel that lets the business move with velocity while properly managing risk.
• Advise on the competition and antitrust dimensions of M&A transactions, strategic investments, and commercial partnerships, partnering closely with Corporate Development and our sales teams.
• Manage antitrust and competition regulatory investigations and inquiries globally.
• Help build out DoorDash’s international competition compliance program, partnering with the Director, Competition & Litigation on training, policies, and processes across DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo.
• Support competition-related litigation matters as needed, including document collection and review, witness preparation, and responses to third-party subpoenas.
• Partner with policy and government relations teams to track legal and regulatory developments that could affect the business.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have a J.D. and are qualified to practice law (bar admission required).
• You have 7-9+ years of experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal department, with a strong grounding in antitrust/competition law as a generalist - spanning M&A counseling, litigation, and regulatory/government investigations.
• You have experience advising on competition issues in mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments, including regulatory filings and clearance strategy.
• You have experience handling antitrust/competition regulatory inquiries or investigations, ideally including direct engagement with regulators such as the European Commission, UK CMA, DOJ, FTC, or other competition authorities.
• You’re comfortable operating as a generalist across a broad portfolio - you don’t need deep pre-existing expertise in every sub‑area, but you can quickly get up to speed and give practical, business‑minded advice.
• You’re an excellent product counselor: able to translate complex antitrust concepts into clear, fast, actionable guidance for product and business teams.
• You’re comfortable working across multiple jurisdictions and legal systems, and can navigate the added complexity of advising across three global brands (DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo).
• You have strong organizational skills and can juggle multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast‑moving environment, both independently and as part of a team.
• You’re an outstanding communicator, both orally and in writing, with sound judgment on when to elevate and when to move forward independently.

Nice to Haves

• Prior in‑house experience at a technology, marketplace, or platform company.
• Direct experience practicing before or engaging with the European Commission, UK CMA, or other non-US competition authorities.
• Additional language fluency relevant to European markets.
• Litigation experience, including depositions, trial preparation, or appellate work.

We expect this position to be filled by 11-24-26

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.

$214,200 - $315,000 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.

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