Associate Manager, DashMart - Category Strategy & Operations

DoorDash USA•Los Angeles, WA

2d•Remote

About The Position

About the Team DoorDash’s New Verticals organization focuses on accelerating one of our strategic pillars ⁠— DashMart, our grocery and convenience delivery offering. We’re building and scaling new ways to delight our customers, leveraging the DoorDash platform. The DashMart Category Management team owns the selection strategy for DashMart and is responsible for offering customers a best-in-class assortment at the right price. About the Role As an Associate Manager on our DashMart Strategy & Operations team, within the category management pod, you will act as the general manager and own the end-to-end strategy and performance of the Produce category across the US. In this role, you will lead assortment decisions, vendor partnerships, pricing strategy and category analytics to accelerate growth and profitability across one of our most exciting Fresh businesses. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Finance, Pricing and Product to bring category strategies to life and continuously optimize performance. You will report into the Manager, Category Management within our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team.

Requirements

Solve problems from first principles.
Be analytical and comfortable pulling your own data in SQL or modeling in Excel.
Be comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot.
Be unafraid of ambiguity.
4-6+ years of professional experience.
Experience in high-performance cultures (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, manufacturing, automation, engineering, etc).
Completed BS/BA Degree.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience with e-commerce, physical retail, or startup environments.
Experience in category management or retail buying is preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end strategy and performance of the Produce category including: selection productivity, profitability, affordability and availability.
Own category strategy from first principles — defining assortment architecture, SKU productivity targets, pricing tiers, vendor mix, and promotional approach to maximize growth and margin.
Partner closely with our Operational teams to ensure high quality, fresh product is reaching our customers.
Transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes, informing your larger initiative implementation plans.
Assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate based on data.
Lead a team of two assortment specialists and partner with a cross-functional team, including local operations, supply chain, and space planning teams.