Senior Manager, Brand and Creative
DoorDash Australia
Salary undisclosed
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About the Team
DoorDash ANZ is building a best-in-class Brand and Creative function. This team exists to build the vision, story, systems and value of the DoorDash brand across Australia and New Zealand, inspiring creativity and infusing our brand into every touchpoint of the region's marketing, from always-on campaigns to major sport and entertainment partnerships.
About the Role
Reporting to the ANZ Marketing Director, the ANZ Marketing team is looking for a Senior Manager, Brand and Creative to lead brand strategy and creative development for DoorDash across ANZ. The ideal candidate moves seamlessly between foundational brand strategy and sharp, culturally relevant creative execution. They are as fluent in systems and frameworks as they are in ideas, thrive in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment, and have a genuine passion for building a challenger brand that competes on experience and cultural relevance rather than budget alone.
This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role in a market where DoorDash operates with strong creative trust and full autonomy to shape how the brand shows up regionally.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Build, own and evolve the vision, story and creative expression of the DoorDash brand across ANZ
- Lead the region's brand and creative platform that will guide work across all channels
- Partner closely with internal teams and external agencies to develop remarkable, on-strategy work that builds cultural relevance and earns attention against a well-resourced market leader
- Shape creative for DoorDash's major ANZ sport and entertainment partnerships, ensuring brand and partnership work reinforce each other
- Act as the primary advocate for our three audiences, Consumers, Dashers and Merchants, ensuring brand and creative decisions are grounded in real audience insight
- Own, report on and optimise against ANZ Brand Health goals
- Build brand architecture, narrative and messaging frameworks that can flex across a fast-growing marketing portfolio and product suite
- Lead the Social and Content teams to put DoorDash at the heart of real-time cultural conversation in ANZ
- Own the consumer insights and research roadmap for ANZ, commissioning and interpreting studies that sharpen our understanding of audiences and directly inform brand strategy and creative decisions
- Manage the brand and creative budget across ANZ, including agency retainers, production costs and resourcing, making sharp trade-offs to ensure spend is concentrated behind our highest-impact work
We're excited about you because you have…
- 12+ years of relevant brand strategy and creative experience, either brand-side or within a creative agency
- The ability to translate complex problems into simple, sharp narratives that travel across an organisation
- A track record of partnering with creative teams to develop genuinely remarkable, effective work
- Proven experience crafting brand positioning, architecture and messaging frameworks
- Comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy and ownership, and confidence to hold a clear point of view under pressure
- A collaborative mindset and the ability to work closely with Marketing, Partnerships and Product teams
- A strong instinct for culture and an eye for creative that cuts through, ideally with direct experience in sport, entertainment or lifestyle brand marketing
- A genuine passion for research and brand health measurement; experience designing qualitative and quantitative studies is a plus
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.
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.
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About this role
DoorDash Australia is building out its brand and creative function across ANZ and seeking a Senior Manager to lead this newly formed capability. You'd report to the ANZ Marketing Director and own the full brand strategy and creative vision for the region—from foundational positioning and messaging frameworks through to execution across campaigns, partnerships, and real-time cultural moments. This is a hands-on leadership role with genuine autonomy; DoorDash operates with strong creative trust regionally, meaning you'll shape how the brand shows up without layers of approval from head office.
The ideal candidate moves fluidly between strategic thinking and creative excellence, equally comfortable building brand architecture and systems as they are identifying culturally sharp ideas that cut through a competitive market. You'll lead the Social and Content teams, partner closely with external agencies, own the consumer insights and research roadmap, and manage the brand budget across production, retainers and resourcing. A significant part of the role involves championing three distinct audiences—Consumers, Dashers and Merchants—and ensuring brand decisions are grounded in real insight rather than assumption.
You'll need 12+ years of brand strategy and creative experience, either agency-side or in-house, with a proven track record of developing positioning frameworks and remarkable work that actually performs. A strong instinct for culture, comfort with high autonomy, and genuine passion for research and brand health measurement are essential. Experience in sport, entertainment or lifestyle brand marketing is valued. This is based in Melbourne and requires in-office presence.
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