Associate Manager, New Verticals - Convenience Strategy & Operations

DoorDash

$105K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6+ years of experience in analytical, cross-functional roles
  • Ability to drive outcomes and own responsibilities
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action
  • Strong analytical skills including proficiency in SQL and Excel
  • Expertise in problem-solving and translating goals into plans
  • Comfortable with both strategic and tactical responsibilities
  • Experience and enthusiasm for leveraging AI tools effectively
  • Bachelor's Degree required; MBA is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Architect the fulfillment strategy for DoorDash's convenience network
  • Drive inventory precision through cross-functional initiatives
  • Own the operational roadmap and set long-term vision
  • Develop tracking dashboards and manage key metrics
  • Transform strategies into operational experiments and new tools
  • Build analytical models to evaluate programs' costs and benefits
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch initiatives

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and basic life insurance
  • Family-forming assistance and mental health program
  • Flexible paid time off and sick leave
Full Job Description
About the Role

Scale and lead the strategic vision for Convenience Operations, one of DoorDash's largest and most dynamic verticals. In this role, you will join a high-performing team dedicated to driving continuous improvement across our daily ecosystem. Your mission is to architect the operational strategies that ensure every customer receives their order with perfect accuracy and unmatched speed, redefining the standard for modern convenience.
Key Responsibilities
  • Architect the fulfillment strategy of our convenience network by overseeing and streamlining in-store fulfillment, scaling macro-level solutions that maximize efficiency and ease for our Dashers across DoorDash's Convenience portfolio
  • Drive enterprise inventory precision by spearheading cross-functional, high-impact initiatives to ensure real-time data syncs flawlessly between platform inventory and actual in-store availability at scale
  • Own the operational roadmap by setting the long-term vision and establish key metrics to firmly position DoorDash as the premier, highest-quality destination for convenience shopping

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and product. The best operators today are rapidly generating new ideas, taking ownership over metrics and moving them in the right direction, putting together product visions, and synthesizing complex analyses - all while leveraging AI to uplevel how we operate. We expect this person to stay at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the work, actively exploring new tools, automating repetitive workflows, and finding ways to do in hours what used to take weeks.

This is an individual contributor position and you will report into a Senior Manager on the team. We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together.
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • Strategize. From first principles, you'll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers.
  • Operate. Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
  • Build with AI. You'll use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team.
  • Experiment. You'll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes.
  • Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments - and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
  • Lead, collaborate and Influence. You'll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.
We're excited about you because...
  • You have 4-6+ years of experience. You've succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
  • You are an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome - both the good and the bad
  • You're entrepreneurial. You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
  • You're analytical. You let data win arguments, and you're comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
  • You solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process
  • You're equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot. You don't hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you're just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.
  • You're unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environment
  • You're energized by AI tools - and you actively experiment with them. You don't wait to be told how to use a new tool; you've already tried it. You bring a builder's mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team. You're comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
  • You have a completed Bachelor's Degree. MBA is a plus!


Compensation

The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:
  • For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).


The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$105,400-$155,000 USD

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