Senior Associate, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations

Join DoorDash’s US Marketplace Strategy & Operations Team

About the Team

Our US Marketplace Strategy & Operations team is responsible for building, scaling and improving the way in which we provide Restaurant delivery. We build our restaurant selection, test 0 → 1 products to give merchants more opportunity to delight their consumers, and optimize ways to improve our marketplace to increase the return on investment our partners gain from partnering with DoorDash. This team focuses on all things Restaurants ranging from selection, to merchandising, to consumer strategy, to leveraging our logistics network in new ways, to so much more!

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team, with a focus on Restaurant Growth. This team is dedicated to growing our restaurant marketplace by launching new selection, enhancing in-app merchandising, helping negotiate new merchant partnerships, and commercializing products that help our restaurant partners grow their businesses on DoorDash. In this role, you will be focused on identifying and executing the most promising ways to grow marketplace revenue while deepening DoorDash’s partnership with its restaurant partners.

The ideal candidate will possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills, and a deep sense of ownership. If you're excited about launching 0 to 1 projects, solving customer challenges, working in fast-paced environments, and managing a marketplace business line with broad impact, this role is for you.

We operate in a hybrid model, balancing in-person collaboration with remote work. While this is an individual contributor position, there will be immediate opportunities to take on people management responsibilities. You will report directly to a Director within our Strategy & Operations team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Have Ownership. You’ll own visible goals that will drive both top-line and bottom-line performance of our core marketplace business

• You will collaborate. You’ll work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment by working with teams like Product, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and more!

• Strategize. Bring new products & strategies to market, integrating net new value propositions into our restaurant ecosystem.

• Operate. You will become an expert on how to run a sustainable marketplace business, and what it takes to create value for Merchants, Dashers and Consumers.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4+ years of experience in a problem solving role - Consulting, Tech, Banking, Food & Beverage, etc.

• You have a completed BA/BS degree in a quantitative field (engineering, mathematics, business, etc.)

• You display strong financial acumen. You know your way around complex financial or operational models.

• You have a strong history of data analysis. Excel/sheets prowess 100% required. SQL experience is a major plus. Willingness to learn is okay.

• You are a collaborator. You have experience with stakeholder management across diverse audiences, from front-line doers to senior executives.

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. 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.

• 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: $78,200—$115,000 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.