About the Team

DoorDash is hiring an experienced Paralegal to join our growing legal team. You will support the New Business Verticals team with a goal of unlocking and advancing opportunities for these rapidly-scaling business lines.

About the Role

DoorDash is hiring a Paralegal to support our New Business Verticals team at a very exciting time for our rapidly growing business. You will have ownership of projects that make an immediate impact. Your work will focus on supporting new business verticals and highly-regulated products to enable the business to continue to expand. This role reports into the Counsel, Product & Regulatory. 

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 collaborative and dynamic individuals that work as a flexible and cohesive group. Join us!

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Manage permit and license application processes and renewals.
• Manage regulatory expansion projects in support of our business partners.
• Work closely with our product counseling team to prioritize legal requests from product and engineering teams. 
• Perform legal research, with guidance and supervision from attorneys, to identify relevant legislative and/or regulatory product requirements and communicate related guidance to relevant stakeholders.
• Design, implement, and maintain various regulatory resources and processes.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 3 years of paralegal or legal assistant experience at a top-tier firm or in-house.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree.
• You are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment and have prioritized participating in DEI initiatives in past roles.
• You are a self-starter and are intrinsically motivated but also a good teammate.
• You have a philosophy that no task is too big or small, and an interest in learning and growth.
• You embrace the DoorDash values of “bias for action” and “operate at the lowest level of detail.”

About Us

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 4,000 cities across the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Germany. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

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.