Senior Associate, New Verticals at DoorDash (New York)

DoorDash connects customers with local businesses for delivery, from restaurants to grocery, retail and its own DashMart stores. Our New Verticals team launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering local communities 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

• 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
• Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments —
• You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes
• Use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions
• You’ll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product

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
• You will report into a Manager on our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team and be an individual contributor position. We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together

Salary and benefits

US base salary $87,000 to $128,000 a year. DoorDash also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.