The Ad sales team is responsible for the advertising vision, development and growth of our largest advertising partnerships. This is a newly created team, seeking founding members to build an industry-leading ads and promotions business across DoorDash’s core categories, starting with CPG brands. The growing DoorDash ads business will quickly become the single best place for merchants and brands to market to local customers, in an ecosystem that benefits all parties.
About the RoleAs an Account Executive, you will build partnerships that create tangible value for both DoorDash and advertisers. In this role, you will manage the ads strategy across a focused portfolio of accounts, and drive adoption of our growing ads and promotions offering. You will also work cross-functionally with account management, marketing, analytics, and product to innovate on our future approach and solutions. You will report to the Director of International Ad Sales.
This is a Hybrid role with 3 days per week in Office (Melbourne/ Sydney) and 2 days remote.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…- Be part of the growing DoorDash Ads & Promos team
- Lead end-to-end marketing and commercial conversations across a portfolio of CPG advertisers, owning strategy, execution, and post-campaign reporting.
- Drive net-new advertiser adoption in a new and growing market, while overseeing engagement and sales strategy for DoorDash’s largest CPG partners.
- Grow and scale CPG revenue by driving Ads & Promos product adoption and delivering sustainable advertiser value.
- Manage a robust sales pipeline, developing annual and quarterly plans, co-creating pitch materials, and maintaining sales content to enable future team and business scale.
- Represent advertiser needs cross-functionally, influencing the Ads & Promos product roadmap and go-to-market strategy while aligning DoorDash resources to support partners’ multi-channel growth.
- You are a consultative seller with 8+ years of experience in digital media
- You’re an expert in using data and insights to inform recommendations, rooted in advertiser objectives and business priorities
- You know the basics of digital ads measurement - from attribution to funnel metrics
- You have strong written/verbal communication and presentations skills, and experience operating across several levels of an organization
- You diligently manage a sales pipeline and can juggle both short- and mid-term impact
- Impact-driven, curious, and strategic, with a natural desire to improve the business, dive into details to uncover insights, and identify win–win opportunities that drive partner and company growth.
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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.
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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