DoorDash
Senior Counsel, Autonomy & Robotics
Job Description
DoorDash Legal has built a reputation within the company for our supportive approach to counseling, always with a bias for action. We're a group of seasoned business-forward lawyers and legal professionals who work collaboratively, have a healthy sense of humor, and are kind to one another and our clients. Join us!
DoorDash is hiring a Senior Counsel to be the lead product and regulatory attorney for the Labs program at DoorDash (including product, engineering, and operations). Labs is DoorDash’s robotics and automation arm that is focused on identifying and integrating autonomous solutions that enhance the customer experience, including robot delivery and drone delivery. This role reports into the Senior Legal Director for Marketplace Products and Regulatory.
- Provide Labs product, engineering, and operations teams with pragmatic day-to-day and strategic advice to minimize legal risks while advancing business goals and initiatives for a fast-moving startup program within the larger DoorDash organization.
- Serve as the lead product and regulatory attorney for the Labs team, advising on federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating to drone delivery, robot delivery, and other automation and hardware technologies.
- Oversee commercial deals that are critical inputs to operations and product development.
- Serve as liaison between the Labs team and relevant legal team experts (such as our team’s experts in privacy and data security, IP, employment, and real estate counseling).
- Synthesize input from outside counsel, your own research, and feedback from internal stakeholders to provide practical guidance applicable to the team.
- You have 8+ years of practicing law at a top-tier firm, in-house, and/or in government. You have a J.D. and are authorized to practice law in the U.S. state where you are located.
- You love technology and like to discuss the technical details, and you have prior experience with hardware products and automated technology.
- You are familiar with launching products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of product development in the technology sector.
- You are comfortable interacting with federal, state, and local regulators.
- You are able to communicate clearly and effectively with senior business leaders regarding the top-level issues, and you also enjoy rolling up your sleeves to find the answers to the team’s questions, put out fires, and build and implement the legal strategy.
- You have a philosophy that no task is too big or small. You embrace opportunities for learning and growth.
- You are able to work autonomously while exercising sound judgment in a fast-paced environment. You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
- You have a positive attitude and high EQ.
- You embrace the DoorDash values of “bias for action.” You can prioritize competing responsibilities and think strategically about organization and process.
We expect this position to be filled by 6/23/2025.
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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, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act) (for salaried roles: flexible 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), 16 weeks of paid parental leave, a wellness benefit, and a commuter benefit match.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash 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.
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.
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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