Associate Manager, New Verticals

DoorDash Canada•Vancouver, BC

4d•CA$116,000 - CA$145,000

About The Position

We are hiring a data-driven and entrepreneurial Associate Manager, International New Verticals Strategy & Operations to lead strategy, experimentation, and go-to-market execution for fulfillment cost and profitability initiatives. Your primary focus will be initiatives that improve costs and variable profit and the long-term economics of our New Verticals businesses. This may include dasher and operational efficiency, pricing accuracy, and other product or platform investments. You will own initiatives across the full product lifecycle: defining the problem, sizing the opportunity, developing and executing solutions, and measuring results after rollout.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in product operations, product strategy, business operations, strategy and operations, consulting, or a related field.
Led complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced or high-growth environment.
Can structure ambiguous problems, identify the most important questions, and translate them into clear plans, decisions, and deliverables.
Comfortable influencing Product, Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
Experience designing experiments, evaluating results, and using insights to make strategic recommendations.
Analytically strong and comfortable working with large datasets, building financial models, and using SQL to answer business questions.
Excellent written and verbal communicator who can distill complex product and technical concepts for different audiences.
Operationally rigorous and able to manage launch timelines, dependencies, risks, and market readiness across multiple workstreams.
Hold a bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

Develop strategy. Use insights, market context, data analysis, and financial modeling to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve the unit economics of our international New Verticals businesses.
Lead experimentation. Design and execute pilots and experiments, partnering with Analytics, Product, Engineering, Finance and Accounting to develop robust cost / profitability problem statements, define success criteria, and translate findings into product and operations recommendations.
Own end-to-end execution. Lead initiatives from initial planning through rollout, including defining the target audience, positioning, market readiness, operating changes, communications, training, dependencies, and launch timelines
Analyze performance and influence decisions. Build SQL-based reporting and analytical frameworks to evaluate opportunities, measure performance, and inform investment and prioritization decisions.
Lead, collaborate and Influence. Partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product, analytics and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.