Director, Analytics, DashOS
About The Position
DoorDash is hiring a Director of Data Science to lead a broad, high-impact analytics and data science portfolio supporting DashOS, its platform for helping restaurants grow. DashOS connects Marketplace, direct ordering, reservations, loyalty, and marketing to help restaurants recognize guests across channels, personalize engagement, and use AI to automate work. The portfolio includes early-stage and rapidly scaling products, bringing together product innovation, commercialization, and long-term platform strategy. The role will shape how success is measured, guide product and commercial strategy, and build data foundations that help teams make better decisions across products at different stages of maturity. The successful candidate will build a high-performing team, improve the quality and speed of decision-making, and help identify and scale the portfolio’s highest-ROI opportunities. The position reports to a Senior Director on the Merchant Analytics team within the Analytics organization.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Data Science, Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Significant experience leading senior teams and developing managers.
- Strong product and business analytics judgment, including a track record of defining metrics, building decision frameworks, and influencing strategy in ambiguous environments.
- Deep expertise in experimentation and causal inference, with comfort making decisions using imperfect data, evolving products, and small or noisy samples.
- Hands-on technical fluency in SQL and statistical analysis, with the ability to raise the team’s technical bar while operating at a leadership level.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and business leaders.
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations that drive action.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of data science and analytics leaders and practitioners across products at different stages, from 0→1 through rapid scaling.
- Own the portfolio’s analytical direction, including experimentation, KPI design, forecasting, decision support, funnel analytics, and foundational measurement.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Strategy & Operations, and Go-to-Market leaders to influence roadmaps, commercialization, and investment decisions.
- Improve instrumentation, create single sources of truth, and connect short-term execution with long-term business outcomes.
- Build the operating system for decision-making across the portfolio.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off and paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Equity grant opportunities
- For salaried roles, flexible paid time off/vacation and 80 hours of paid sick time per year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
