Company Name: DoorDash
Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Full Time
Salary: $83,000—$122,000 USD
Job Description:
We’re looking for a highly organized and execution-focused Senior Event Marketing Associate to support the growth of DoorDash Reservations and SevenRooms across North America. In this role, you’ll help bring our brand to life through a mix of consumer-facing activations, restaurant partnerships, merchant events, industry conferences, and local market experiences. You’ll work cross-functionally with teams to execute memorable experiences that drive awareness, engagement, and adoption of DoorDash Reservations. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves hospitality, thrives in fast-paced environments, and enjoys managing the details that turn great ideas into exceptional customer and merchant experiences.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…
- Support the planning and execution of North America event and experiential marketing programs for DoorDash Reservations.
- Lead end-to-end event logistics for a variety of activations, including owned events, merchant pop ups, food festivals, trade shows, conferences, and partner activations.
- Coordinate with restaurant partners, venues, agencies, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure successful event execution.
- Help develop and execute consumer-facing experiences that increase awareness, consideration, and engagement for DoorDash Reservations.
- Manage event production timelines, budgets, vendor contracts, shipping logistics, inventory, and on-site operations.
- Support sponsorship activations and strategic partnerships by coordinating deliverables, assets, guest experiences, and event programming.
- Collaborate with Integrated Marketing, Social, Communications, Partnerships, Sales, and Customer Success teams to ensure alignment across campaigns and activations.
- Track event performance metrics including attendance, lead generation, customer engagement, merchant participation, and overall program impact.
- Maintain event calendars, project plans, and reporting dashboards to support program visibility and operational excellence.
- Travel to support on-site execution and serve as a brand ambassador at events across North America.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, scale event operations, and enhance attendee experiences across the portfolio.
We’re Excited About You Because You Have…
- You have 4+ years of experience in event marketing, experiential marketing, field marketing, hospitality marketing, partnerships, or related functions.
- You have hands-on experience executing both consumer-facing and B2B events, with a passion for creating exceptional guest experiences.
- Have experience interacting with AI tools (ie Claude, ChatGPT, etc) and display curiosity, adaptability, and the ability to blend AI with the day-to-day role.
- You are highly organized and excel at managing multiple projects, deadlines, vendors, and stakeholders simultaneously.
- You enjoy rolling up your sleeves and can confidently manage event logistics from planning through on-site execution.
- You have strong project management skills and exceptional attention to detail.
- You are a proactive problem-solver who remains calm and resourceful in fast-paced environments.
- You have experience working with agencies, venues, vendors, and external partners.
- You are an effective communicator who can build relationships across teams and influence stakeholders through collaboration.
- You are passionate about restaurants, hospitality, dining experiences, and local communities.
- You are comfortable using data and reporting to evaluate performance and inform future event planning.
- You’re willing to travel up to 25–35% across North America to support key activations and events.
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.
