Associate - Strategy & Operations

DoorDash USA; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits match

PTO & paid sick leave

Job summary

DoorDash Digital Ordering is seeking an Associate on the Strategy & Operations team to own one or more first‑party product initiatives from end to end. You will develop strategy, define results, and partner with S&O, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, and Marketing to drive execution.

This role blends analysis, build, and cross‑functional leadership within the Foundational Products scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 2-3 years in strategy, operations, consulting, product, or founder-type roles.
• Experience taking product initiatives from inception through launch and growth.

Responsibilities

• Own product initiatives end-to-end and drive strategy, goals, and go-to-market plans.
• Lead cross-functional teams and ensure on-schedule launches with accountability.
• Analyze data and merchant feedback to inform roadmaps and priorities.
• Design and run zero-to-one experiments and pilot automation/tools when needed.
• Represent merchants and scale learnings with repeatable processes.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical horsepower

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

Communication

AI/tools experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

AI tools

Job description

New York, NY; Austin, TX; Chicago, IL; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA

About the Team

DoorDash Digital Ordering is DoorDash’s leading SaaS business unit, offering a suite of products across online ordering, branded websites and mobile apps, loyalty solutions, and more that enable restaurants to reach customers and grow their revenue through their own first‑party channels.

The business is one of the fastest‑growing segments within DoorDash, and yet is only scratching the surface of a generational opportunity to better serve hundreds of thousands of merchants across the Americas to help them grow their business and improve working lives in one of the country’s biggest industry sectors.

Strategy & Operations sits at the center of that opportunity. The team partners with Product to set the strategy and vision for every offering in the suite, across our SMB and enterprise merchants. We decide what to build, where to invest, and how to bring it to market, and we learn by putting products in front of merchants and running the experiments that show us what moves their business.

As part of this team, the Associate will take end-to-end ownership of one or more product initiatives and lead the cross‑functional execution that brings them to life. Your work will be instrumental to helping grow Digital Ordering into an industry‑leading B2B SaaS offering.

About the Role

As an Associate on the Digital Ordering Strategy & Operations team, you will own one or more product initiatives within our first‑party suite from end to end. You will develop the strategy, define key results, and drive execution in partnership with S&O, Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, and Marketing. This role is ideal for a strategic operator who can move fast and wear many hats, equal parts analyst, builder, operator, and cross‑functional leader.

You will own zero‑to‑one experiments and initiatives that improve products already operating at scale, help shape the roadmap with Product, and work directly with merchants and frontline teams to identify the gaps worth solving. Scope on this team grows with demonstrated ownership, and the people who do well here identify problems independently and come back with a plan to solve them.

You will join the Foundational Products team, the products that are table stakes for every restaurant we serve and that drive the core of our revenue today across SMB and Enterprise. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Manager of Strategy & Operations, Foundational Products.

We’re especially excited about candidates who’ve worked in fast‑moving, founder‑led, or resource‑constrained environments, those who see lack of structure as an opportunity to build.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Own product initiatives from end to end and be accountable for their results
• Imagine, develop, and execute on workstreams from start to completion with little oversight
• Oscillate easily from strategic considerations to tactical execution
• Build deep and meaningful relationships with merchants, laser focused on helping them thrive
• Have the opportunity to truly make a scalable, measurable impact on the restaurant industry in the US and abroad
• Operate comfortably in ambiguous environments while maintaining a strong bias for action
• Grow your scope as you demonstrate ownership and impact
• Communicate precisely dependent on audience and level of detail necessary to share
• Represent the DoorDash brand with humility and a customer‑first mindset

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own product initiatives: Take end-to-end ownership of one or more product initiatives. Develop the strategy, define goals and key results, and build the business case, financial model, and go-to-market plan. Drive execution from launch into growth, with accountability for the results.
• Lead cross‑functionally: Bring Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, Marketing, and Support behind a plan and hold partners accountable to it without formal authority. You will be the connective tissue that keeps a launch on schedule and the feedback loop that informs what gets built next.
• Analyze: Pair complex data analysis with qualitative insight from merchants and frontline teams to guide strategic decisions. Build your own models, assess weekly performance against key results, and translate findings into action plans, adjusting course as needed.
• Experiment: Design and launch zero‑to‑one tests, build AI tools and automations to support internal processes and product launches, and pilot tools, demos, or prototype agents. Move quickly to retire what does not work and scale what does. You will work directly with merchants, including occasional travel to stores and running in‑market tests as needed.
• Represent the merchant: Act as the voice of the merchant and the field, leading discovery interviews and synthesizing feedback from Sales, Implementation, Support, and merchants themselves to help influence product roadmaps and go-to-market priorities. You will ensure our products resonate with restaurants and scale with repeatable excellence.
• Scale learnings: Codify what works. Build the repeatable frameworks, processes, and enablement that raise the bar across the org, and define best practices for launching new products in a way that’s scalable and measurable.

The best candidates will:

• Think like a founder, identifying the problems nobody flagged, building the case for solving them, and driving them to resolution with limited structure or direction
• Bring strong analytical horsepower and intellectual curiosity, comfortable diving into complex data and extracting insights that drive real‑world decisions
• Thrive in fast‑paced, high‑ambiguity environments, moving with urgency, defaulting to action, taking ownership end to end, and knowing when to bend process to get things done
• Lead cross‑functional teams through influence, building trust with Product, Engineering, Sales, Account Management, and Marketing partners and holding them to their commitments
• Communicate clearly across audiences, presenting findings and defending recommendations with data
• Have experience working closely with Sales or frontline teams, and know how to turn insights from those teams into action
• Bring hands‑on experience using AI, automation, or internal tooling to improve workflows or prototype solutions

We’re excited about you because you…

• Have 2-3 years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, product, or founder‑type roles
• Have taken a product or initiative from inception through launch and into growth, leading cross‑functional partners without a fully defined brief
• Demonstrate the judgment to identify gaps worth solving and shape product priorities alongside S&O and Product partners
• Can independently devise and execute a strategy to achieve business outcomes
• Bring a strong analytical background, with the ability to synthesize large data sets into meaningful insights (proficiency in SQL preferred)
• Lead cross‑functionally and influence without authority across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and Marketing
• Define goals and key results for your initiatives, and hold yourself accountable for achieving them
• Bring exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain insights, defend recommendations, and tailor messaging across frontline teams, senior leaders, and merchants
• Have piloted or built with AI tools in real‑world workflows, such as automating processes, prototyping solutions, or supporting product launches
• Bring a founder mindset, identifying problems independently and driving them to resolution
• Bachelor's degree required.

Bonus if you have experience with:

• Founding or operating your own company or product, or an early employee role at a startup
• Building and executing go‑to‑market motions
• Working in a high‑growth environment
• Client or account management
• Building financial or sales forecasting models
• Restaurant, SaaS, or marketplace businesses
• Both zero‑to‑one work in a lean environment and scaling products at a larger organization
• Are the first in your family to attend college

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

• We are leaders: Leadership is not limited to our management team. It’s something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodies
• We are operators: We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions to lead our company and our industry is what we do on every project, every day
• We are learners: Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we’ve been in a role for one year or one minute. We are committed to learning and implementing what is best for our customers, merchants, and dashers
• We are one team: The magic of DoorDash is our people, together making our inspiring goals attainable and driving us to greater heights.

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 (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.

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 (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.

$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. 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.

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