Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy brings more than 18 years of experience in people operations, talent strategy, and organizational culture. He has spent his career building people functions that pair big, human-centric ideas about culture with the operational rigor to execute them – treating people leadership as a driver of business results. Prior to DoorDash, Paul held executive roles across people, culture, and communications at SevenRooms, Intersection, Handshake, Magnetic, and LivePerson.

As Chief People Officer at SevenRooms, he built human and business first programs that became known well beyond the culture of the company – including Fresh Start, a global policy giving every new hire their first two weeks as PTO, and a tenure-based policy mandating consecutive days off to focus on meaningful connections. These initiatives created some of the highest employee engagement scores in the industry. Paul played a key leadership role that guided SevenRooms through its $1.2 billion acquisition by DoorDash in 2025.

Today, Paul is global People Leader at DoorDash, where he’s building the people infrastructure for a newly combined, increasingly global organization – one that now spans more than 40 countries. He’s focused on scaling talent strategy and organizational design to match that footprint, while carrying forward the same conviction that has transformed how businesses see and value their people: not as an asset, but as catalysts for success.