Associate - Strategy and Operations

DoorDash USA•Austin, TX

1d•$74,800 - $110,000•Remote

About The Position

DoorDash Drive is looking for an Associate for its GTM implementation team supporting new verticals. This role is within the hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers, and retailers across the United States, Canada, and Australia. The GTM team is focused on launching merchants quickly and efficiently for long-term success. The business line is fast-growing, fast-paced, and obsessed with efficiency. Additionally, DoorDash's Strategy & Operations Product Ops team, within the GM organization, is seeking an Associate to support new verticals. This team acts as the connective tissue between product, engineering, and the field, ensuring successful landing of new features and tools across the marketplace. The focus is on driving operational excellence, scaling product launches efficiently, and surfacing insights to shape future product development. The business line supported is fast-moving, cross-functional, and focused on turning strategy into execution.

Requirements

Act with urgency and take ownership; quickly jump on the most important issues and capable of driving multiple work streams simultaneously.
Strong cross-functional skills and experience with projects spanning multiple teams.
Organized and appreciate the importance of following process and thorough documentation.
Previous experience working in eCommerce and/or logistics.
Curious about the business and how things work; ask great questions and not afraid to challenge the status-quo.

Responsibilities

Help drive a cohesive launch strategy and execution playbook for one of our newest business lines.
Become an expert about our product, operations, and Merchants.
Be on the forefront of expansion; building models, creating documents, and implementing processes to win deals, accelerate launches, and improve launch quality.
Perform comprehensive analysis and make insightful recommendations about our business strategy with the ultimate goal of helping DoorDash disrupt a new industry.
Bring structure to undefined opportunities by creating and implementing high-impact playbooks, models, processes, and tools that help us grow new business more quickly and effectively.
Work cross-functionally with our Business Development, Logistics, and operations teams to rapidly scale new business.
Understand the needs of our partners, prioritize those needs by impact, assess tradeoffs, and design solutions to drive both speed and quality outcomes.
Solve key problems with a data-driven, first-principles approach (identification, sizing, pricing, impact, root causing, trade offs).