Associate Manager, Marketplace S&O - Midwest & Local Markets
About The Position
DoorDash is looking for an analytical and entrepreneurial operator to join our team as an Associate Manager on our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team. Our mission is to grow local business within DoorDash, building best-in-class experiences for both our customers and our merchants alike. You will dive into data to explain market performance at the lowest level of detail, create high-impact strategies, and work alongside internal and external stakeholders to develop our brand and grow our business. We are looking for an Associate Manager to join our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team. This role will play a key role in unlocking the next phase of growth for merchants by owning and executing local markets growth strategies across the Midwest and other strategic markets. In this role, you’ll design and execute innovative plans and experiments to increase market share, analyze performance at a granular level, and build reports, models, and tools that enable teams to scale impact. You’ll work across a range of metrics and partner closely with cross-functional teams to drive coordinated growth. Highly prefer candidates residing in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, or Missouri (ideally near the Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, or St. Louis metro areas); requires twice-quarterly travel to our Chicago hub for team collaboration and project sprints.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience.
- Successfully managed initiatives and driven results in high-performance cultures (whether in tech, strategy, operations, consulting, banking or a related experience).
- Solve problems from first principles.
- Analytical: Let data win arguments, and be an expert at pulling your own data (you use or can learn SQL) and modeling in Excel/Google Sheets.
- Take initiative and own outcomes end-to-end.
- Strong bias toward action and quickly turn insights into impactful experiments and initiatives that drive measurable results.
- Unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments.
- Relationship-builder. Can influence and motivate people at all levels across a variety of functions.
- Equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot. Don’t hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but are just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.
- No job is beneath you.
Nice To Haves
- High-growth startup experience is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Formulate & execute against a strategy for winning in some of DoorDash’s most competitive markets in the US.
- Conduct business-critical analyses--and act on them.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to stand up and implement new initiatives.
- Build for the long-term.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Flexible paid time off/vacation (for salaried roles)
- 80 hours of paid sick time per year (for salaried roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
