Staff Producer, Studio Central

The role

A staff-level producer post in Studio Central, a global team within Studio, DoorDash's Product Design organisation. Studio Central supports four brands, DoorDash, Wolt, Deliveroo and 7Rooms, and works with Marketing, Product and Engineering. The role owns how the team's design expression work is requested, scoped, prioritised and delivered, and is listed for San Francisco, New York and Seattle.

What you'll do

• Own the Studio Central operating model: how design expression work is requested, scoped, prioritised and delivered across the four brands
• Set up design operations from scratch for new verticals or business lines
• Produce high-profile brand and design work from start to finish, covering briefs, timelines, resourcing, reviews and final handoff
• Give art direction on briefs and in reviews, weigh creative trade-offs against time and budget, and protect visual quality through to handoff
• Look after design expression across brand and product, together with Brand, Product Design and Marketing
• Build governance: contribution paths, review rituals, decision rights and an escalation route for conflicts between brand and product
• Align Marketing, Engineering, Product and Localisation on decisions about brand in product
• Own vendor and agency relationships, including selection, onboarding, procurement and performance management
• Create and maintain playbooks, guidelines, templates and documentation
• Define the tooling and workflow strategy for asset management, review and handoff
• Drive responsible adoption of AI in production, asset generation and maintenance of the design language
• Measure adoption, throughput and quality to show what design investment achieves

About you

• At least 12 years in creative production, design programme management or design operations, including hands-on production and experience of defining operating models
• A record of taking new initiatives from concept (0 to 1) through to adoption at scale
• End-to-end experience of brand and product design work: budgets, timelines, resourcing, reviews and delivery
• Able to give creative direction that senior designers act on, and to be treated as a creative peer by design leadership
• Strong judgement on quality, including when to hold firm and when more polish adds nothing
• Able to tell a real design problem from a request for assets, even when the request comes from a senior stakeholder
• Experience of building governance, documentation, contribution models and adoption rituals for design systems or brand guidelines
• Able to lead through influence across Brand, Product, Engineering, Marketing and Localisation without formal authority
• Experience of owning design budgets and agency relationships at scale
• Clear communication, a resourceful approach to problems and enthusiasm for design culture, team rituals and new tools, including AI

What's on offer

• Equity grants as part of pay
• 401(k) with employer match
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Medical, dental and vision cover
• 11 paid holidays
• Wellness benefits and a commuter benefits match
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance and a mental health programme
• Flexible paid time off and 80 hours of paid sick time a year for salaried roles

The process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis
• Apply with a CV and LinkedIn profile; a cover letter is optional
• The application asks about work authorisation and sponsorship
• Accommodation requests should be raised with your recruiting contact at first contact

The details

• Salary: $176,800 – $260,000 base (a national range, adjusted by location), plus equity
• Location: San Francisco; also open in New York and Seattle
• Level: staff (12+ years)
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis

How to apply

Apply through DoorDash's careers site.