About the Team
The DoorDash Recruiting Team is focused on building DoorDash culture, one quality hire at a time.
We're looking for a Director of Technical Recruiting to lead our Engineering recruiting efforts. DoorDash is growing and scaling at an unprecedented rate, and you will play a critical role in shaping the technical recruiting function as we build to fully realize DoorDash’s mission: to grow and empower local economies. We’re focused on improvement — from moving faster to leveling up the quality of our product — and our work is never complete. If you’re looking to define your career as part of something greater than yourself, come scale with us.
About the Role
The Director of Technical Recruiting - Engineering will be responsible for developing and driving a scalable recruiting strategy to support our growing Engineering organization. In this role, you’ll lead hiring strategy and execution in close partnership with Engineering leadership.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
- Lead DoorDash’s global engineering recruiting strategy with a focus on attracting top, diverse technical talent to meet both current and future organizational needs.
- Manage and develop a high-performing, globally distributed team of Engineering Recruiting Managers and their teams.
- Attract, grow, and retain recruiting talent across all levels, cultivating deep industry knowledge, operational rigor, and a culture of innovation.
- Establish and drive recruiting forecasting, analytics, and reporting processes to track key performance indicators and team OKRs (objectives and key results).
- Deliver ongoing insights to track progress, hiring quality, and the cost-effectiveness of recruiting efforts.
- Leverage data to uncover trends and continuously optimize the team’s strategy and impact.
- Provide strategic counsel to senior leaders and hiring managers on how to effectively attract, assess, and hire top-tier technical talent.
- Design and refine scalable processes, tools, and systems to support a global recruiting organization at scale.
- Champion proactive hiring strategies that align with organizational design, succession planning, and long-term pipeline needs.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to amplify DoorDash’s employment brand and build strategic engagement opportunities with prospective talent pools globally.
We’re excited about you because…
- You are a seasoned and strategic recruiting leader with deep experience in engineering hiring and a track record of owning and scaling end-to-end recruiting programs.
- You bring at least 12 years of recruiting experience, including leading high-performing, global teams and managing other managers.
- You create clear separation between your scope and that of your leads, bringing executive-level perspective, long-range thinking, and the ability to guide the team through complexity.
- Recruiters are drawn to your leadership. You build trust quickly and form strong partnerships across all levels and functions.
- You are data-informed, action-oriented, and always focused on driving impact through smart, scalable recruiting practices.
- You are committed to building diverse teams and have experience leading inclusive hiring strategies that make a measurable difference.
We expect this position to be filled by 9/17/25.
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).
$190,400—$280,000 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 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 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.
Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment 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. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
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