Senior Associate, Finance & Strategy - G&A, Legal

About this role

About the Team

Within Finance & Strategy, the General & Administrative (G&A) Finance & Strategy team partners with leaders across DoorDash’s corporate functions to plan resources, track performance, and support investment decisions as the company grows. This role will be the primary finance partner to our Legal organization, including Litigation, Legal Operations, Corporate Legal, and Product Legal, and will help build the consolidated planning and reporting tools our broader team relies on.

We expect this role to be primarily based in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Associate to help shape how DoorDash invests in its Legal organization over the long term, while owning the planning, forecasting, and reporting that make those decisions possible. You will partner with Legal leaders to understand what shapes their spend, from outside counsel and litigation matters to headcount and legal technology, and turn that understanding into clear forecasts and investment recommendations. Legal spend can be hard to predict, so success in this role means building trusted relationships, bringing structure to uncertainty, and giving leadership an accurate, early view of risks and opportunities. This role is well suited for someone who wants to move past “what is the budget” to “what is the right level of investment, and how will we know it is working.”

You will report into the Director who leads our Global G&A Finance team in our Finance & Strategy organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Partner with leaders across Litigation, Legal Operations, Corporate Legal, and Product Legal to shape long term investment decisions, such as when to bring work in house and how to consolidate outside counsel.

• Build, define, and track metrics that Legal leadership uses to steer the business, such as outside counsel spend per matter, in house versus outside counsel mix, and Legal cost relative to company growth.

• Lead quarterly, annual, and long range planning for the Legal organization, presenting clear recommendations and tradeoffs to Legal and Finance leadership.

• Own monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and accrual support for legal spend, including outside counsel, litigation and settlements, headcount, and vendors, in close partnership with Legal Operations and Accounting.

• Help own the consolidated forecast for the broader G&A Finance team, and improve the models, planning systems, and AI workflows behind it so recurring work becomes faster and easier to scale.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis or a closely related finance role, where you owned budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and variance analysis with a high bar for accuracy.

• You are a trusted business partner and clear communicator who builds relationships with senior, nonfinancial stakeholders and turns complex analysis into concise written summaries and presentations.

• You bring structure to ambiguous problems, look past the budget line to the business question behind it, and are comfortable recommending a course of action, not just reporting results.

• You have advanced financial modeling skills in Excel or Google Sheets and experience with planning systems or data tools (such as SQL) that you use to automate and scale reporting.

• You use AI tools in your work today beyond basic chat (for example, automating a recurring report or building a reusable workflow), and you’re eager to keep learning and adopting new ways of working.

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.
$104,700—$154,000 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 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…