Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations, Merchant Apps

DoorDash USA • San Francisco, NY

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About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations, Merchant Apps to shape the vision and execution of DoorDash’s core merchant tools, including the Merchant Portal and Business Manager App. In this role, you’ll help merchants operate seamlessly on our platform by ensuring our products are easily accessible, discoverable, and useful to their DoorDash experience. You’ll match deep customer empathy with analytical rigor to uncover insights, reduce friction, and design strategies that make our apps and surfaces intuitive and essential. Success in this role requires strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive impact across product, engineering, sales, and operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, product management, product operations or related
• Direct people management experience
• Bias to action and agility – you move quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment. No job is beneath you and you lead from the front.
• Proven ability to create clarity and focus in complex and ambiguous problem spaces, and you can articulate that vision to cross-functional partners
• Ability to solve analytical problems quickly, and are experienced in SQL and/or Excel
• You are an owner, meaning you take responsibility for outcomes, have experience being in the driver’s seat, and want to shape the vision and direction of the company
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives—written, verbal, and visual
• Strong business acumen—assessing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to support short-term needs and long-term goals
• A bachelors’ degree

Responsibilities

• Develop and build the critical tools that our merchants need to run their businesses
• Have game-changing impact on our merchants’ operations and experience with DoorDash
• Strategize – From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers.
• Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes, informing the broader product and experience roadmap
• Analyze . You’ll assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate based on data.
• Lead and collaborate. You’ll work with a cross-functional team, including marketing, design, product, engineering, analytics, sales, and operations to build this experience.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
• DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others
• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees