Account Executive - CPG Ads

About the Team

The ad sales team is responsible for the advertising vision, development and growth of our largest advertising partnerships. This team is seeking additional team members to build an industry-leading CPG ads and promotions business across Door Dash’s core categories. The growing Door Dash ads business will quickly become the single best place for brands to market to local customers, in an ecosystem that benefits all parties.

You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business.

As an Enterprise Account Executive - CPG Ads, you will build partnerships that create tangible value for both Door Dash and advertisers. In this role, you will manage the ads strategy across a focused portfolio of CPG accounts, and drive adoption of our growing ads and promotions offering. You will also work cross-functionally with account management, marketing, analytics, and product to innovate on our future approach and solutions.

You will report into an Industry Manager within the CPG Ad Sales in our Enterprise Sales & Business Development organization. Category specific focus could be across Beverages, Household, Personal Care, Sweets/Confection, Pets, Snacks, Pantry, or Alcohol.

• Join a rapidly growing team within the Door Dash Ads & Promos org
• Lead end-to-end advertising conversations across a portfolio of consumer packaged goods (CPG) advertisers
• Drive product/feature adoption, and ultimately grow advertiser value and sustainable revenue for Door Dash
• Represent advertiser needs to influence our Ads & Promos product roadmap and go to market strategy
• Manage a robust sales pipeline and create annual and quarterly plans to achieve ambitious goals
• Co-develop pitch materials and processes to enable future scale of the team and business

• You are a consultative seller with 3-5+ years of experience in digital media
• You’re an expert in using data and insights to inform recommendations, rooted in advertiser objectives and business priorities
• You have a background in CPG Advertising marketing or sales, preferably in the E-commerce space
• You know the basics of digital ads measurement - from attribution to funnel metrics
• You have strong written/verbal communication and presentations skills, and experience operating across several levels of an organization
• You diligently manage a sales pipeline and can juggle both short- and mid-term impact
• Nice to Have:
  You have experience working directly with restaurant advertisers or similar

• Experience leveraging data, AI-informed insights, and emerging AI tools to drive strategic decisions, enhance productivity, and improve outcomes in complex business environments.
• Strong ability to interpret AI-generated insights, synthesize them into clear, actionable recommendations and executive-level narratives, and influence stakeholders.
• Baseline fluency in AI concepts, with a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new technologies as AI capabilities become increasingly embedded in workflows, products, and customer interactions.

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…