Strategic Account Executive

About The Team

On the Inside Sales team, our mission is to promote growth in local economies by building connections with businesses across the nation and promoting the DoorDash platform. Stationed locally, this team owns new business development by creating deep partnerships with the most coveted local and regional restaurants across the US.

About The Role

We're looking for a Strategic Account Executive to join our team to help bring the most valuable merchants onto the DoorDash platform. As part of our Inside Sales team, you'll join a team of experienced sales professionals who have excelled in the art of leading deliberate sales processes. You'll be focused on new restaurant acquisitions with a transactional deal cycle targeting our most important strategic markets. You will have the freedom and autonomy to manage your day to hit your targets.

You will report to the Inside Sales Manager where you'll have direct access to grow your career to the next level. We expect this role to be flexible in terms of time spent remote and in-office with the ability to travel as needed for in-person collaboration through trainings, offsites, team-building events, and other business related necessity.

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Help transform the way restaurants monetize through our on-demand delivery service
• Create a great first impression with merchants and build a pipeline of qualified leads
• Lead the full sales cycle while closing transactions to attain new business from small to midsize merchants
• Master email marketing automation tools to creatively engage prospects
• Make a high volume of cold calls (80+) and emails to prospects daily
• Ability to travel as needed for in-person collaboration through trainings, offsites, team-building events, and other business related necessity
  
  

We’re Excited About You Because…

• You have 2+ years of experience working in a high volume inside sales environment
• You have experience in Small - Medium (SMB) business to business sales
• You have managed a full sales cycle and have been in a closing or lead generation sales role
• You are genuinely curious about people, local businesses, and technology
• You are passionate and persistent about sales
• You can navigate sales and internal tools (Salesforce, Outreach, Sales Navigator, Google Apps)
  
  

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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.

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