Associate Manager, New Verticals - Retail Strategy & Operations

Join DoorDash’s New Verticals Team: Associate Manager, Retail Strategy & Operations

About the Team

The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce through expanding our product offerings on our marketplace platform. We launched in 2020 and have since then built world-class operations to delight our customers with access to Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail delivery through our marketplace. The Retail Strategy & Operations team has expanded into industries like pets, beauty, flowers, office supplies, home improvement, apparel and so much more.

About the Role

As we continue to scale our Retail business, we’re looking to hire a few Associate Managers to support key strategic growth initiatives and expand our retail presence in the US across multiple categories such as pets, beauty, flowers, office supplies, home improvement and more.

You’ll help shape DoorDash’s retail strategy and drive growth across key categories. You may own category performance—expanding assortment, launching merchandising initiatives, and leading campaigns that deliver results. You may help bring top retail partners to the platform, managing launches from start to finish through our enterprise partner launch playbook. Working closely with Business Development, Product, and Operations teams, you’ll turn strategy into seamless execution—fueling the next wave of retail innovation at DoorDash.

You’ll be an individual contributor and report into a Senior Manager. We operate in a hybrid and spend a few days a month in person together! Since we are hiring a few retail team members, you will be considered for multiple roles at once throughout the interview process. We align you with the best role fit after a completed interview process.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Strategize. From first principles, by mapping selection whitespace by retailer type, geo, and category to unlock product availability for our customers
• Operate. Stand up 0→1 pilots, build dashboards, manage week-over-week KPIs and turn wins into scalable processes.
• Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate expansion opportunities and prioritize the next bets.
• Build. Translate sales-cycles and GTM needs into requirements and co-lead product feature development
• Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll work with cross-functional teams and external vendors to unlock partnerships, growth and quality to scale retail presence across the country.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4-6+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
• You are an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work and own the outcome and scale learnings through playbooks and SOPs
• You're entrepreneurial. You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
• You’re analytical. You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
• You’re equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot. You don’t hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you’re just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.
• You’re unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments where you can be creative and scrappy.
• You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, etc.

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.

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: $98,600—$145,000 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.