Staff Product Designer

About the role

Deliveroo, now part of DoorDash, is looking for a Staff Product Designer to join its London team. The role leads the design strategy for critical product areas, shaping the long-term vision of the platform and driving architectural improvements across the ecosystem. It sits in the Studio team, which is part of a global design community including designers from Deliveroo, Wolt and DoorDash.

Key responsibilities

• Define the product design strategy for high-level, ambiguous business challenges, aligning user needs with long-term commercial goals.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to drive architectural decisions and platform-wide design standards.
• Mentor senior designers and foster high-quality craft across the organisation.
• Identify and tackle systemic design opportunities that improve performance, accessibility and user satisfaction at scale.
• Bridge functions and align cross-functional teams around a unified product vision.

Required profile

• Extensive experience leading complex design initiatives from conception to launch in large-scale, high-growth environments.
• Proven ability to define and drive design strategy while managing multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated track record of mentoring designers and raising the quality of work in high-performing teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate complex design visions and influence senior leadership.

Required skills

• Deep technical fluency and a strategic understanding of how design influences engineering constraints and product outcomes.

What we offer

• A competitive salary and equity options.
• A low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment with fast ship, test and improve cycles.
• Flexible working and continuous learning.