Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations Associate Manager

DoorDash USA; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash USA is seeking an Associate Manager for New Verticals - Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations in San Francisco. You will own end-to-end merchant and customer experiences, partnering with product, engineering, finance, analytics and sales to scale grocery segments.

The role blends strategy, operations, and product, with a hybrid work model requiring some in-person collaboration each month. You will push analytical boundaries and leverage AI to accelerate impact.

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of experience in analytical, cross-functional environments.
• Owner mindset with accountability for outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial with bias for action and building from ground up.
• Analytical; comfortable pulling data in SQL and building models.
• Able to translate high-level goals into actionable plans.
• Able to operate at both strategic and detailed levels.

Responsibilities

• Strategize the optimal approach for grocery merchant segments (mid market and local).
• Operate by owning tracking dashboards and weekly metrics.
• Analyze economic, operational and strategic costs with SQL and spreadsheets; apply AI insights.
• Experiment by turning strategies into operational experiments and tooling.
• Build with AI to automate processes and prototype product visions.
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams to drive initiatives to completion.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Dashboards

Analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling

Tools

Spreadsheets

Job description

DoorDash USA is seeking an Associate Manager for New Verticals - Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations in San Francisco. You will own end-to-end merchant and customer experiences, partnering with product, engineering, finance, analytics and sales to scale grocery segments.

The role blends strategy, operations, and product, with a hybrid work model requiring some in-person collaboration each month. You will push analytical boundaries and leverage AI to accelerate impact.