Strategic Account Development Executive, Platform Innovation
DoorDash · Chicago, United States +2 · 7mo ago
About the Team
The Outside Account Development team expands on existing DoorDash partnerships while identifying opportunities for further engagement, growth, and performance with our most innovative platform products.. We collaborate closely with merchants to understand their business needs, uncover revenue opportunities, and help them adopt new SaaS and operational solutions that fuel long-term success.
Our team currently spans the U.S. and is composed of highly tenured sellers known for their collaboration, fast-paced execution, and commitment to building DoorDash’s next billion-dollar product line.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Strategic Account Development Executive to drive adoption of DoorDash’s growing suite of SaaS and platform tools within our existing restaurant partner base. In this role, you will own a full-cycle outside sales motion, combining field-based relationship building with data-driven storytelling to close complex deals quickly and consistently.
This role is hybrid field and remote, spending 2–3 days per week in territory engaging directly with restaurant owners, operators, and executive decision-makers. You will manage a quarterly book of business with clear revenue expectations, a defined lead list, and a fast-paced sales cycle.
You will report to the Manager of Strategic Account Development within the Outside Sales organization.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Drive a complex, fast-paced, high-volume sales motion.
- Run a highly structured end-to-end sales workflow: prospecting, discovery, data analysis, pitching, negotiation, and close.
- Excite our existing accounts on the potential to increase revenue share.
- Engage with strategic decision makers, including restaurant owners and operators, while using data to tell a compelling story.
- Use deep product knowledge to position advanced DoorDash platform tools designed to improve revenue, operations, and brand perception.
- Use forecasts, unit economics, and internal insights to show merchants how various SaaS and sales packages drive revenue growth.
- Work with Account Managers, Sales Leadership, and cross-functional partners to ensure smooth merchant onboarding and adoption.
Contribute to building internal sales processes, documentation, and best practices for a rapidly scaling product line. - Travel across your region (up to 40%), while we offer flexible hours and options to work from home.
We're excited about you because…
- You have 3–5 years of closing experience, ideally within a high-volume, fast-paced sales environment, selling to SMB clients.
- Experience in restaurant technology or selling to restaurant operators is highly preferred.
- Experience selling hardware is preferred.
- Successful experience managing a full-cycle outside sales territory.
- You have strong discovery skills and a track record of navigating ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
- Expertise working in Salesforce, Outreach, Microsoft Office, and Excel, with the ability to use data to persuade and forecast outcomes.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration abilities and experience working with account managers or service teams.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with proven success driving revenue.
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Compensation
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants and sales commission. 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).
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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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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If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026.
The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144.
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