Senior Associate, New Verticals - Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations
DoorDash USA · AZ, US
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About the Role
We are hiring a Senior Associate on our Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations teams to scale service offerings through third-party merchant partnerships. This role involves leading growth projects for major Grocery merchants, including portfolio management, ideating and launching 0-1 initiatives, and onboarding merchants to new services. You will partner closely with product, engineering, finance, analytics, and business development teams. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to a Manager on the New Verticals Strategy & Operations team.
Responsibilities
- Strategize from first principles to develop optimal strategies for serving all sides of the marketplace.
- Operate by owning tracking dashboards and managing week-over-week metrics to drive high-quality operations.
- Analyze using Excel and SQL to evaluate economic, operational, and strategic costs and benefits of programs and experiments, increasingly leveraging AI.
- Experiment by transforming strategies into operational experiments, product features, and net-new tooling.
- Build with AI by automating manual processes, building new prototypes, and developing product visions.
- Lead, collaborate, and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product, and engineering to launch initiatives.
Requirements
- 2-4+ years of experience in highly analytical and cross-functional environments (tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or related).
- Demonstrated ownership and a bias for action.
- Ability to solve problems from first principles, synthesize complex problems, and translate high-level goals into actionable plans.
- Comfort operating at both high-level strategic thinking and detailed operational execution.
- Comfort with ambiguity and thriving in a rapidly changing, startup environment.
- Experience and enthusiasm for AI tools, with a builder's mindset to automate, accelerate, and unlock new work.
- Comfort with a role scope that may shift as AI capabilities evolve.
Skills
- Excel
- SQL
- AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini)
- Portfolio management
- Strategy development
- Operations management
- Data analysis
- Modeling
- Product development
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree ideally in Economics, Business, Finance or a related business field.
Salary/Compensations
- $87,000—$128,000 USD
Benefits
- Opportunities for equity grants
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and 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's mission is to empower local economies.
- We are a technology and logistics company expanding beyond food delivery to offer any and all goods.
- DoorDash is growing rapidly and constantly changing, offering opportunities for impact and career ownership.
- We are committed to supporting employee well-being through comprehensive benefits and perks.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community.
- We hire and cultivate diverse teams from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
- 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.
- We value a diverse workforce and encourage applications from individuals 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.
- We will consider for employment qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable regulations.
- If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.