Senior Associate Workforce Planning

DoorDash India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash India is seeking an experienced Workforce Planner to design and scale our support staffing for a 24/7 operation. You will build capacity models, forecast volumes, and develop scenarios to drive efficient staffing and service levels.

Expect close collaboration with operations, product, and engineering to optimize processes and ensure optimal customer experience. The role emphasizes data‑driven decision making, domain expertise in workforce management tools (NICE/Verint/Genesys/Aspect),

Qualifications

• You are analytical and data‑driven, loving to dive into the details and letting data win arguments.
• You have 4–6 years of relevant experience in tech/operations/strategy environments.
• You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands‑on experience with workforce management software (NICE/Verint/Genesys/Aspect) and advanced Excel/Google Sheets; SQL is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain capacity plans at monthly, weekly, and interval levels, aligning headcount to forecasted volumes.
• Forecast inbound contact volumes and create what‑if scenarios for planning horizons.
• Monitor SL performance, analyze gaps, and feed insights into planning.
• Guide short‑term staffing adjustments, track hiring pipelines, and reconcile headcount with budget.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams to improve processes and end‑to‑end recommendations.

Skills

Analytical

Excel/Sheets

Data-driven

SQL (plus)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

NICE

Verint

Genesys

Aspect

Job description

About the Role

Support Operations is one of our core operations teams, responsible for making sure that when things go wrong, there's always someone there to make it right. The team designs, manages, and operates a large and growing global network of support centers, with the goal of delivering a world-class customer experience every time.

We're looking for an experienced Workforce Planner to help develop and scale our support lines of business. This role is central to planning monthly, daily, and hourly staffing levels, and to keeping hiring plans current so we consistently deliver best-in‑class service. You'll play a key part in improving forecast accuracy, reporting, and how we plan around floor staff utilization and efficiency — for a 24/7/365 organization, wherever it operates.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

Capacity planning

• Build and maintain support capacity plan models at the monthly, weekly, and interval level, using a quantitative model to determine the staff required to service forecasted volumes
• Match staffing supply to required staff to ensure efficient service level attainment, and make hiring, ramp, and staff‑reduction recommendations
• Keep capacity plans and assumptions accurate, current, and aligned to source‑of‑truth headcount data, auditing regularly for accuracy
• Ensure alignment from the smallest site/team level of detail up through the broader org‑wide capacity plan
• Maintain documentation of planning methodology, assumptions, and processes, and continually improve the planning tools, models, and templates themselves

Forecasting & scenario planning

• Forecast incoming contact volume using historical and benchmark data, tracking deviations between forecast and actuals on a regular cadence
• Build, update, and present "what-if" scenarios to evaluate potential changes and support upcoming initiatives, as well as annual, half‑year, and quarterly planning scenarios for long‑range and financial planning
• Build and validate capacity models for new lines of business, queues, or markets, and identify overtime activation needs while ensuring compliance with local labor regulations in each region you support
• Build out and report on seasonality trends for a complex, growing organization

Performance & insights

• Dig into historical data to surface insights that improve support operations, speed, quality, and customer experience
• Monitor service level performance, perform SL‑miss analysis, and feed those insights back into planning

Staffing & headcount

• Guide short‑term staffing adjustments to close current gaps, and partner with Operations to track how staffing is implemented and optimized, driving proactive and corrective improvements
• Reconcile planned vs. actual headcount and budget with Finance/HR, monitor the hiring pipeline against plan, and track new‑hire ramp against expected productivity curves
• Maintain a risk register or contingency plan for capacity gaps such as surges, outages, or attrition spikes, and incorporate attrition, absenteeism, and other shrinkage assumptions into the model

Cross-functional partnership

• Partner with Real Time Analysts for demand insight and outage reporting
• Partner with teams across operations, customer experience, product, engineering, and tools to improve processes and the resulting experience for customers and partners
• Hold regular capacity plan reviews with leadership, and flag service level risks — with supporting analysis and a recommended mitigation plan — for upcoming projects and initiatives
• Own your recommendations end‑to‑end: dig into the data, build the model, set implementation timelines, align partners, test ideas, and measure results

We're excited about you because…

• You're analytical and data‑driven — you love getting into the weeds, and you let data win arguments
• You enjoy tackling complex problems and building something that hasn't existed before
• You're well‑organized and detail‑oriented, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You follow up and follow through — you execute and get the job done
• You're comfortable in a fast‑paced, constantly changing, team‑oriented environment, and can manage multiple deadlines at once
• You have an owner mentality: quality‑focused, output‑driven, proactive, and always pushing yourself to do better
• You bring creative solutions to big challenges
• You're comfortable operating at the lowest level of detail while also thinking long‑term and inspiring a team
• You're energized by rapid change and constant learning
• You're comfortable pulling data or modeling in Excel/Google Sheets
• You don't give up — if your first plan doesn't work, you have a few more in your back pocket
• You have 4-6 years of relevant experience, having succeeded in diverse environments (tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or similar)
• You have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• You bring hands‑on experience with workforce management software (e.g., NICE, Verint, Genesys, or Aspect) and advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; SQL experience is a plus

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 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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