About the Role
As the leader of a large, high-performing team of data scientists, you’ll own the analytics strategy for DoorDash Ads for Restaurants. You’ll guide a team spanning multiple levels of seniority to drive insights and decisions across a multi-sided marketplace, optimizing across consumer and merchant outcomes. Success in this role means delivering measurable business impact, elevating the quality of analytics across the organization, and building systems that balance advertiser ROI, consumer experience, and platform health. You will report into the Senior Director of Analytics on our Ads team.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing analytics team, providing mentorship, feedback, and clear career development pathways.
- Define and drive the analytical and product roadmap by setting measurable goals and aligning cross-functional teams around success metrics.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to uncover insights, optimize funnels, and inform high-impact decisions.
- Apply advanced analytical methods—such as cohort analysis, regression modeling, and experimentation—to identify growth opportunities and guide strategy.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, staying creative and resourceful in solving complex problems with limited resources.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or a related field.
- Executive communication skills required to translate data into business impact.
- Empathetic and effective people manager who prioritizes coaching, development, and team alignment.
- Hands-on experience with funnel optimization, user segmentation, and time-series analysis.
- Scrappy and strategic, able to navigate ambiguity, influence executive stakeholders, and deliver results under pressure.
Skills
- SQL
- A/B testing
- Statistical analysis (e.g. hypothesis testing, regression modeling, experimentation)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $219,700—$323,000 USD
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
- Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles
- 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles
About the Company
- DoorDash Ads will become the most transparent and effective advertising channel for merchants, brands, and ad buyers/agencies of all sizes to market their offerings to engaged local audiences.
- We build a variety of products that are easy to use and confidently generate incremental value for advertisers, while also helping consumers discover and engage with brands they love and save money.
- 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 by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
- Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status.
- Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office.
- Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash.
- We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
- If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
