Associate Manager, New Verticals at DoorDash (New York)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. This role reports into our New Verticals team, which was launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering our local economies outside of just restaurants. Since then, we’ve launched Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail, and DashMarts while also building merchant services, dasher tooling and consumer products.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering to define requirements, prioritize features
• Lead cross-functional initiatives that close the gap between platform inventory and real-world in-store availability
• Set the strategic roadmap for convenience quality — defining the metrics that matter, building toward a long-term vision
• From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers
• Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations
• Use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions

Requirements

• Succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking
• Always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome – both the good and the bad
• A bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up
• Let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel
• Solve problems from first principles
• Equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot

Location and schedule

• Onsite in New York, New York
• 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

Salary and benefits

US base salary $105,400 to $155,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.