Strategic Merchant Lead

Strategic Merchant Lead at DoorDash

About the Team

The Outside Sales team for Emerging Verticals is paving the way for the next billion dollar business at DoorDash. Stationed across the country, this team is creating strategic partnerships with top local merchants across our non-restaurant lines of business. Our Outside Sales team is the revenue driving arm of DoorDash and ensures the expansion of our partnerships which help strengthen operations, accelerate consumer growth, and improve our bottom line.

About the Role

We are looking for a Merchant Lead for the Outside Sales team to establish partnerships with our top local merchants across the country. The key to DoorDash’s growth is merchant selection. The more top local merchants we add to DoorDash’s New Verticals, the faster we will add new customers, the better we will retain existing customers, and the higher our conversion rates will be for customers visiting our app or website.

Merchant Leads of Emerging Verticals establish partnerships with our top prospective merchants across the country in some of our newest segments. As DoorDash continues its mission to be the leading partner in last mile logistics, it is the job of the Merchant Lead to grow our selection, increasing customer adoption and conversion to our non-restaurant lines of business.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Partner with integral merchants by helping them understand the value of DoorDash’s full suite of services (e.g. Marketplace, DashMart, POS Integration)
• Master our service offerings — address merchant issues by solving problems and applying product knowledge to win deals while sharing learnings with leadership to develop solutions improving the merchant and customer experience
• Lead negotiations to structure industry-leading and mutually beneficial economic terms
• Accelerate a highly organized sales cycle with the goal of closing deals within a few weeks
• Collaborate alongside multiple teams — work with our Senior Strategic Sales Managers, Partner Management, as well central functions (Strategy, Drive, POS, and Marketing) to extract the most value possible from our top accounts
• Up to 50% of travel

We're excited about you because…

• You have 3+ years of experience in a closing sales role or related experience
• You excel in a strategic deal cycles
• You are comfortable with ambiguity, and able to bring structure where it does not yet exist
• You have experience exceeding goals
• You have experience selling multi-product solutions
• You approach challenges from the fundamentals
• You express creative sales tactics to engage with prospects
• You have experience using a CRM (Salesforce) and Google Apps
• You are a fast learner, ready to pick up new tools and processes

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis

Compensation

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants and sales commission. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a 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.

See below for paid time off details:

• 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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $39.27—$57.75 USD

The total on-target earnings (base + commissions) for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado. $71.40—$105 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.

DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.