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Brown will start in late August and report to DoorDash Chief Operating Officer Prabir Adarkar, according to a company spokesperson. Brown will oversee revenue across the main business lines of restaurant, retail, grocery and emerging categories in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the spokesperson added. He will also lead sales and sales operations, merchant strategy and operations, and partner closely with Head of Ads Toby Espinosa, who continues to report to Adarkar.
'Spotify and Lee Brown have mutually agreed to part ways,' according to a Spotify spokesperson. Brown led the audio streamer's $2 billion ads business across nearly 90 markets internationally, overseeing sales, business development, marketing, product and engineering functions. At DoorDash, he will fill the role of Tom Pickett, who left the company last August to become chief executive officer of meditation app Headspace Inc.
DoorDash, which has two-thirds of the US food-delivery market, announced in June that it had acquired advertising tech firm Symbiosys for $175 million to bolster a business that generates more than $1 billion a year. The deal lets the company offer its advertisers the ability to manage their marketing messages on external sites such as social media, in addition to the DoorDash app and website.
Spotify is set to report second-quarter results Tuesday, while DoorDash is scheduled to release its results on Aug. 6.
Axios earlier reported Brown's hiring by DoorDash.
--With assistance from Ashley Carman.
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