Staff Product Designer — Systems & Tools for Scale

DoorDash; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Staff Product Designer who will operate across product surfaces, shipping production‑quality work and driving design systems in a fast‑moving environment. You’ll build reusable workflows, shared tools, and decision frameworks to let designers work faster while aligning with business goals.

You’ll mentor peers, contribute to AI-powered tooling, and partner with cross‑functional teams to ship high‑impact experiences at scale.

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping work that drives measurable outcomes at scale across multiple teams.
• Body of work demonstrating craft excellence, systems thinking, and leadership through influence.
• Shipped features, working prototypes, or open source tools alongside traditional design artifacts.
• Demonstrated scope: shaped team-level priorities, built tools or systems used by multiple designers, influenced adjacent roadmaps.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design craft - your work sets the standard and inspires others to raise theirs.
• Build-first fluency - you reach for code editors and LLM-powered tools as naturally as design tools, prototyping in production and contributing meaningfully to the codebase.
• Product thinking that defines what to build by synthesizing customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints into a clear brief.
• Systems thinking at scale - you design solutions that work across teams and workflows, and you build the shared tooling that operationalizes them.
• Builder who multiplies - you don't just ship your own work faster, you build the tools and workflows that make everyone around you faster.
• Comfort with ambiguity at scale - you navigate unclear problems across multiple teams and create clarity through shipped artifacts, not slide decks.

Responsibilities

• Define projects with a clear point of view on what to build, writing briefs that synthesize business and customer inputs into roadmap milestones; balance customer needs, business goals, and feasibility to shape what your team builds and why
• Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross‑team problems and turn them into actionable work that ships; drive prioritization across your team and adjacent teams, making tradeoffs between design quality, speed, and impact so the highest‑leverage work moves first
• Shape key projects from concept through execution - staying close enough to resolve issues during iteration, guiding design direction, and shipping work that drives measurable outcomes across multiple teams; produce high‑fidelity designs and production‑ready prototypes that set the craft standard for the team
• Design solutions spanning multiple workflows and contribute to shared tools - prompt libraries, component generators, workflow automations - that improve productivity across teams; mentor peers on responsible AI use and contribute reusable frameworks adopted beyond your own team
• Build trusted relationships across your team and adjacent product teams, influencing their roadmaps through evidence‑based thinking and live prototypes that make your recommendations concrete; pursue consistent self‑improvement and flex into raising team outcomes
• Multiply team capacity through mentorship, recruiting, and inclusive practices that raise the bar across the design org

Skills

Exceptional visual and interaction

Build-first fluency

Product thinking

Systems thinking

Ambiguity tolerance

Mentorship

Tools

Internal tools

Job description

DoorDash is seeking a Staff Product Designer who will operate across product surfaces, shipping production‑quality work and driving design systems in a fast‑moving environment. You’ll build reusable workflows, shared tools, and decision frameworks to let designers work faster while aligning with business goals.

You’ll mentor peers, contribute to AI-powered tooling, and partner with cross‑functional teams to ship high‑impact experiences at scale.