Associate, New Verticals - Convenience Strategy & Operations

DoorDash; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking an Associate for our Convenience Strategy & Operations team. You will work across growth, quality and operational initiatives to identify strategic opportunities and drive sustainable growth, with a hybrid work model.

Two roles are open; compensation ranges are listed in the posting. You will use Excel and SQL, apply AI, build prototypes, and collaborate across teams to improve order accuracy, fulfillment speed and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 1–3+ years of experience in analytical, cross-functional environments.
• Bachelor’s degree completed.
• Strong SQL and Excel modeling skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategize from first principles to optimize the marketplace for dashers, merchants and consumers.
• Operate dashboards and weekly metrics to drive quality and efficiency.
• Analyze with Excel and SQL to evaluate programs’ costs and benefits.
• Experiment by turning strategies into operational experiments and features.
• Build with AI to automate processes and accelerate analysis.
• Lead cross-functional partnerships to launch initiatives to completion.

Skills

Analytical mindset

SQL proficiency

Excel modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

About The Team Our New Verticals team launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering local communities outside of just restaurants. Since then, we’ve launched Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail, and DashMarts while also building merchant services, dasher tooling and consumer products. New Verticals is the growth engine of DoorDash’s business and we are continuing to build and scale new businesses everyday. These roles sit within our Convenience Strategy & Operations - the first vertical we launched outside of restaurants. Convenience is one of our most profitable and accessible verticals with the highest monthly average users across our New Verticals platform - we are growing the team so come join us!

About The Role We are hiring an Associate to work on our Convenience Strategy & Operations team across growth, quality and operational initiatives. You will work on identifying ways to improve consumer quality, operational excellence, and sustainable growth by identifying & executing against strategic opportunities. In this role, you might work on initiatives like:

• Identifying, validating, and launching high-impact “0-to-1” initiatives that unlock new growth opportunities across the convenience merchant base
• Developing initiatives that strengthen DoorDash’s position as the preferred destination for convenience shopping through improved selection, discoverability, and quality
• Leading operational improvement projects focused on increasing order accuracy, fulfillment speed, and overall customer satisfaction
• Streamlining in-store fulfillment processes to improve efficiency and create a seamless experience for Dashers and merchant partners
• Developing and executing on programs that improve inventory accuracy and ensure real-time platform availability reflects in-store stock levels

This roles sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and product. The best operators today are rapidly generating new ideas, taking ownership over metrics and moving them in the right direction through building product visions, synthesizing complex analyses and testing every idea — all while leveraging AI to uplevel how we operate. We expect this person to stay at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the work, actively exploring new tools, automating repetitive workflows, and finding ways to do in hours what used to take weeks.

We have two positions open so you will be considered for both roles throughout this interview process. Role alignment will be determined by the hiring panel through team matching & role fit after interviews are completed. This is an individual contributor position. We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together.

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers.
• Operate. Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
• Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments — and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
• Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes.
• Build with AI. You\'ll use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions. You\'ll be expected to push the boundaries of what\'s possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team.
• Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.

We’re Excited About You Because…

• You have 1-3+ 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 product and own the outcome – both the good and the bad
• 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 solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process
• 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 environment
• You're energized by AI tools — and you actively experiment with them. You don\'t wait to be told how to use a new tool; you’re already exploring tools like Claude, Cursor, Gemini and more. You bring a builder\'s mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team. You\'re comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
• You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree.

Compensation Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location. 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. 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

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, and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$74,800—$110,000 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 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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. 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 from ever gaining a foothold in our office. 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.