Associate Manager, New Verticals - Convenience Strategy & Operations

DoorDash USA • San Francisco, NY

15h • $105,400 - $155,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role reports into our New Verticals team, which was launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering our local economies 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. Scale and lead the strategic vision for Convenience Operations, one of DoorDash’s largest and most dynamic verticals. In this role, you will join a high-performing team dedicated to driving continuous improvement across our daily ecosystem. Your mission is to architect the operational strategies that ensure every customer receives their order with perfect accuracy and unmatched speed, redefining the standard for modern convenience.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of experience.
• Succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
• You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome – both the good and the bad
• You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
• You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
• You solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process
• 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.
• Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environment
• You're energized by AI tools — and you actively experiment with them. You don't wait to be told how to use a new tool; you've already tried it. You bring a builder's mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team. You're comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
• You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree.

Nice To Haves

• MBA is a plus!

Responsibilities

• Architect the fulfillment strategy of our convenience network by overseeing and streamlining in-store fulfillment, scaling macro-level solutions that maximize efficiency and ease for our Dashers across DoorDash's Convenience portfolio
• Drive enterprise inventory precision by spearheading cross-functional, high-impact initiatives to ensure real-time data syncs flawlessly between platform inventory and actual in-store availability at scale
• Own the operational roadmap by setting the long-term vision and establish key metrics to firmly position DoorDash as the premier, highest-quality destination for convenience shopping
• Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers.
• Operate. Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
• Build with AI. You'll use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team.
• Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes.
• Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments — and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
• Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.

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, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year (for salaried roles)
• premium healthcare
• wellness expense reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level