Senior Manager, Ethics and Compliance

DoorDash is hiring an experienced leader to help us uplevel our ethics and compliance function. This high-visibility, high-impact position will establish the global ethics and compliance strategy in close partnership with legal, HR, product, policy, engineering, audit, and business teams. You will play a pivotal role in influencing DoorDash’s ethical standards and ensuring compliance with regulations while fostering a culture of ethical conduct across the enterprise. 

About the Role

As a Senior Manager of Ethics and Compliance, you will develop the strategy and drive DoorDash’s ethics and compliance function to ensure our policies, processes, and frameworks meet the required ethical standards. You will work cross-functionally across various regional compliance teams and business units to align on ethics and compliance policy development and propagation. This will be a highly visible role where you will work with executive leadership to report on the health of the ethics and compliance function, mature the program over time, and foster a robust organizational ‘speak up’ culture. 

We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced settings and brings a pragmatic approach to ethics and compliance. The ideal candidate will be someone who is creative, is a self-starter, operates at the lowest level of detail, and is driven to make an impact. 

About the Team

DoorDash’s Legal Team has built a reputation within the company for our highly collaborative and supportive approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. This role will sit within our newly branded Compliance, Privacy, and Data Responsibility team, which consists of a diverse group of professionals with a shared passion for providing creative and best-in-class service to our business partners. We go above and beyond to help accelerate and protect the business, and above all else, we value and respect each other as teammates. We’re looking for a team builder who can successfully work across the legal team, as well as the broader company. Join us!

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Set and champion the vision for the ethics and compliance program, including developing objectives and key results for this function.
• Stay current on external global ethics & compliance business environment changes and implement policy enhancements to reflect the risks.
• Enhance protocols for receiving, documenting, and responding to ethics-related violations and conflict of interest reports, ensuring a commitment to transparency, confidentiality, and accountability. 
• Design and implement a comprehensive compliance training strategy that aligns with the overall global compliance program and supports a culture of compliance.
• Identify process gaps and roll out technical solutions including innovative uses of technology for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Reporting on DoorDash’s ethics and compliance program to the executive leadership team.
• Monitoring and managing reports made to our reporting hotline, and ensuring that all reported matters are appropriately investigated and documented in a timely manner.
• Coordinating annual ethics and compliance risk assessments and managing the ethics and compliance team’s contribution to DoorDash’s organizational risk-management system.
• Managing our annual compliance certification and training campaigns.
• Developing, launching, and analyzing the results of our periodic culture of compliance survey.
• Serving as a subject matter expert in the areas of meals, gifts, travel, entertainment, conflicts of interest and similar areas.
• Conducting internal investigations, as required, and preparing investigation reports of findings and conclusions with respect to the matters investigated.

We’re excited about you because…

• You work autonomously while exercising sound judgment in a fast-paced environment.
• You thrive equally on quick, risk-based decisions and nailing big projects. 
• You are technically fluent.
• You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
• You have a positive attitude and high EQ. No job is too big or too small!
• You are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and have prioritized participating in DEI initiatives in past roles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in ethics and compliance, risk management, policy, or a related field.
• Proven track record of managing ethics and compliance programs in a fast-paced environment, preferably in technology or finance sectors.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and industry standards related to ethics, compliance, and corporate governance.
• Knowledge and understanding of the practical application of the US Department of Justice and Federal Sentencing Guidelines in assessing the effectiveness of compliance and ethics programs.
• Experience working cross-functionally to align on ethics and compliance standards and processes.
• Ability to think laterally and anticipate downstream effects of activities that could impact compliance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to clearly convey regulatory complexities to various stakeholders, including presenting reports to senior management and regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues and make sound decisions in high-pressure situations with discretion and integrity.

We expect this position to be filled by 9/23/25.

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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.$159,800—$235,000 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.

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