Associate Manager, New Verticals - Consumer Pricing & Affordability
About The Position
The New Verticals team, launched in 2020, has expanded DoorDash's marketplace beyond restaurants to include grocery, convenience, alcohol, retail, and DashMart stores, establishing DoorDash as the #1 third-party marketplace for grocery and retail in the US. Within New Verticals, the Consumer Strategy & Operations team focuses on building consumer growth levers. The Pricing & Affordability team specifically aims to redefine value in delivery, making DoorDash the smartest and most affordable place to shop. The pricing, fee, and savings systems are crucial for customer acquisition and retention. This role involves sharp, quantitative thinking about pricing and investment strategies. As an Associate Manager, you will be the primary owner of pricing strategy and its use as a growth lever, with a focus on fee structure and affordability. You will collaborate with Finance, Analytics, and Product teams to build pricing models, forecast impacts, design A/B tests, and launch new fee structures. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role reporting to a Senior Manager, situated at the intersection of strategy, operations, and finance, with analyses influencing decisions reaching millions of customers. The role emphasizes rapid idea generation, metric ownership, product vision development, complex analysis synthesis, rigorous testing, and leveraging AI to enhance operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will actively explore AI tools, automate workflows, and find innovative ways to expedite tasks.
Requirements
- 4-6+ years of success in highly analytical roles: investment banking, corporate FP&A, management consulting, corporate strategy, or business operations.
- Energized by AI tools and actively experiment with them, exploring tools like Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and more.
- Possess a builder's mindset towards AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team.
- Comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, viewing this as an opportunity.
- Enjoy ambiguity and break messy, open-ended problems down from first principles into clear plans, taking responsibility for moving things forward.
- Thrive on analytical tasks, building models and forecasts from scratch.
- Completed Bachelor's Degree.
Nice To Haves
- MBA
Responsibilities
- Analyze SQL queries and build Excel models to quantify the consumer, operational, and financial tradeoffs of fee changes, leveraging AI tools like Claude & Cursor to automate and move faster.
- Use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes, and develop product visions. Push the boundaries of what's possible with AI and share learnings.
- Partner with Finance to project how pricing decisions will impact the business and track actual results against projections.
- Work with Analytics to design A/B tests across markets and verticals, translating results into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Own the metrics and dashboards for your programs, sharing insights with partners across the New Verticals organization.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
