Principal Product Designer (Ventures)

About the role

Deliveroo, now part of DoorDash, is looking for a Principal Product Designer to join its Ventures team in London. Ventures is DoorDash's internal incubator that builds businesses adjacent to its core, funding small teams with a strong sense of ownership and growing the investment as they hit clear milestones. The Principal Product Designer is the senior design voice on an early-stage product, taking it from first concept to a test-market launch and shaping it for global scale.

Key responsibilities

• Define the design vision and strategy across several Ventures products, deciding what to build at product-area level and sequencing work across teams
• Become an expert on local market dynamics so each product is shaped by how people behave in each place
• Partner with product-area leadership as a trusted advisor, shaping roadmaps and priorities
• Set success metrics, share weekly updates, present at key business reviews and partner with cross-functional team leads to build the case for further investment
• Deliver step-change improvements to customer journeys in crowded markets
• Design scalable foundations across complex journeys and turn regulatory constraints into simple experiences with legal, finance and operations
• Build systems, prototyping frameworks and AI-enhanced workflows, and establish critique and planning practices
• Mentor senior designers and emerging leaders, and hire senior designers and first-line managers

Required profile

• Proven experience leading design initiatives across multiple products, including taking more than one from 0-1
• A track record of spotting opportunities that improve long-term outcomes, backed by exceptional craft
• Credibility with senior leaders and the ability to combine customer research, business goals and feasibility into one strategy
• A history of coaching designers and managers and recruiting talent
• Experience building tools and standards that scale across teams
• Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving, startup-style environment

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity options
• A low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment where ideas are shipped, tested and improved quickly
• Flexible working and continuous learning