Associate - Strategy and Operations

DoorDash

$74K — $110K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in product management or related roles
  • Strong background in eCommerce and logistics
  • Excellent analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decision making
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally across various teams
  • Organized with a strong appreciation for process and documentation
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple projects and workstreams effectively
  • Curiosity and willingness to challenge the status quo

Responsibilities

  • Drive the product and quality strategy for new business lines
  • Build and implement impactful playbooks and processes
  • Monitor service quality and take corrective action when needed
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence roadmaps
  • Analyze market needs and provide strategic recommendations
  • Identify and solve key problems through a first-principles approach
  • Ensure product strategy aligns with market expectations

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match
  • Healthcare options including medical, dental, and vision
  • 11 paid holidays and flexible paid time off
  • Disability and basic life insurance
  • Family-forming assistance and mental health programs
Full Job Description
About the Role

You will drive the product and quality strategy for one of our newest business lines. You will quickly become an expert about our product, operations, and Merchants. You will be on the forefront of driving Merchant growth by ensuring we have a product strategy aligned with market expectations; monitoring our service quality and deep diving when we deviate from expectations; and providing recommendations to product and operations teams on how to optimize our service offering to meet the growing needs of our Merchant and Customer base. You will perform comprehensive analysis and make insightful recommendations about our business strategy with the ultimate goal of helping DoorDash disrupt a new industry.
You're excited about this opportunity because you...
  • Build - Bring structure to undefined opportunities by creating and implementing high-impact playbooks, models, processes, and tools that help us grow business more quickly and effectively
  • Influence - Work cross-functionally with our Business Development, Product, Logistics, and operations teams to influence roadmaps and set requirements
  • Prioritize - Understand the needs of our partners, prioritize those needs by impact, assess tradeoffs, and design solutions to drive both speed and quality outcomes
  • Analyze - Solve key problems with a data-driven, first-principles approach (identification, sizing, pricing, impact, root causing, trade offs)
We're excited about you because...
  • Act with urgency and take ownership; you quickly jump on the most important issues and you are capable of driving multiple work streams simultaneously
  • Have strong cross-functional skills and experience with projects spanning multiple teams
  • You are organized and appreciate the importance of following process and thorough documentation
  • Have previous experience working in eCommerce and/or logistics
  • Are curious about the business and how things work; you ask great questions and are not afraid to challenge the status-quo

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis

Compensation

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.

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.

$74,800-$110,000 USD

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