Associate, DashMart - Regulatory Strategy & Operations

DoorDash USA • Los Angeles, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

In this role, you will support the execution of regulatory workflows that enable growth while minimizing risk, cost, and timelines. You will identify and track regulatory and community-related issues across our site portfolio, and partner cross-functionally with Operations, Real Estate, Legal, Construction, Public Policy, and Category Management teams to support site launches and ongoing operations. You will analyze data, support audits, and build processes that improve how we identify, track, and resolve issues across markets. You will report to a Manager on our DashMart Regulatory Operations team; we operate in a hybrid model with time split across your home office, in-market site visits, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• You solve problems from first principles. You’re excited to solve problems in innovative ways, and you resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking.
• 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. No job is beneath you.
• You’re unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments
• You’re analytical. You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL or modeling in Excel.
• You have 1–3 years of professional experience. You’ve succeeded operating in fast-paced, high-performance environments and exposure to local government or city planning processes.
• You have completed your BS/BA Degree.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with zoning, permitting, or entitlements is preferred.
• Preferably in a relevant field such as Urban Planning, Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Real Estate Development, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Build . You’ll help build and improve processes that support regulatory operations across DashMart, contributing to more efficient and predictable site launches and operations.
• Strategize . You’ll support the development of strategies that address regulatory and community-related challenges across markets.
• Experiment . You’ll translate strategies into operational improvements and pilots, testing new approaches to improve execution.
• Analyze . You’ll assess operational performance, identify trends and issues, and use data to inform decisions and prioritize improvements.
• Collaborate . You’ll work with a cross-functional team, including local operations, construction, real estate, vendor and category management, and warehouse design teams.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees