Strategy & Operations Manager - Ads & Promotions Supply

DoorDash

$136K — $200K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in strategy, operations, monetization, or ads
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams
  • Proven ability to handle ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, SQL preferred
  • Experience in pricing, monetization systems, or marketplace dynamics (preferred)
  • Ability to think strategically while managing detailed execution

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve pricing and bidding mechanisms
  • Build frameworks unifying ads and promotions into a cohesive ecosystem
  • Develop scalable pricing systems, including dynamic and reserve pricing
  • Partner with Product and Data Science to define models and success metrics
  • Establish frameworks across pricing, formats, and user experience globally
  • Own key business metrics to achieve revenue and efficiency goals
  • Drive initiatives from problem definition to launch and iteration

Benefits

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

This role sits at the center of our Ads & Promotions platform, focused on building scalable monetization systems and driving high-impact business outcomes. You will operate as a single-threaded owner across critical initiatives, working cross-functionally to define strategy, shape product direction, and drive execution.
This role may focus on one or both of the following areas:

1. Ads Pricing & Monetization Systems
  • Design and evolve pricing and bidding mechanisms
  • Build frameworks that unify ads and promotions into a cohesive ecosystem
  • Develop scalable pricing systems (e.g., dynamic pricing, reserve pricing, experimentation frameworks)
  • Partner with Product and Data Science to define models, inputs, and success metrics
  • Drive adoption and performance of monetization features across advertisers

2. Global Ads Systems & Platform Scaling
  • Define how our ads platform scales across global markets
  • Establish standardized frameworks across pricing, formats, inventory, and user experience
  • Build systems that balance global consistency with local flexibility
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to scale solutions across regions
  • Develop playbooks to support international expansion and long-term platform growth

Across both areas, you will:
  • Own key business metrics and deliver against revenue, efficiency, and experience goals
  • Drive initiatives end-to-end from problem definition through launch and iteration
  • Develop data-driven insights and business cases to inform product strategy and prioritization
  • Partner cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Sales
  • Act as a bridge between business and technical teams to ensure solutions are both strategically sound and operationally scalable
You're excited about this opportunity because you will...
  • Be an owner: You will operate as a single-threaded owner for critical monetization problems, defining strategy and driving execution end-to-end
  • Build systems: You'll design scalable frameworks that power the ads business-not just one-off solutions
  • Solve complex problems: You approach ambiguous challenges with structured, first-principles thinking and strong business judgment
  • Shape the product: You will partner deeply with Product, Engineering, data science, and sales to influence what gets built and how it works
  • Drive impact at scale: Your work will directly impact revenue, advertiser outcomes, and the consumer experience across markets
We're excited about you because you have...
  • 6+ years of experience in strategy, operations, monetization, or ads (e.g., marketplace, pricing, growth, or ad tech)
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams
  • A proven track record of owning ambiguous, high-impact problems end-to-end
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills (SQL preferred)
  • Experience with pricing, monetization systems, or marketplace dynamics (preferred)
  • Ability to operate at both a strategic level and dive deep into data and execution


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.

$136,000-$200,000 USD

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