Senior Associate, Grocery Merchant Growth & Operations

DoorDash, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash, Inc. is seeking a Senior Associate for Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations on the New Verticals team. You will scale merchant partnerships, onboard SKUs and services, and improve quality across grocery offerings.

You will work closely with product, engineering, finance and analytics, leveraging AI to streamline processes and accelerate insights. The role sits in a hybrid model, reporting to a Manager on the New Verticals Strategy & Operations team, with a few in-person days each

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years of experience in analytical, cross-functional environments.
• Owner mindset with accountability for outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial with bias for action and building from scratch.
• Analytical with SQL data extraction and Excel modeling.
• Comfort with ambiguity and startup pace.
• Excited about AI tools and experimentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business, Finance, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Strategize the optimal marketplace strategy serving dashers, merchants and consumers.
• Operate by owning dashboards and tracking week-over-week metrics.
• Analyze using Excel and SQL to evaluate costs/benefits of programs and experiments, with AI support.
• Experiment by turning strategies into operational tests, features and tooling.
• Build with AI to automate processes and develop product visions; share learnings.
• Lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to launch initiatives to completion.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Economics degree

Business degree

Finance degree

Tools

Claude

Cursor

Gemini

Job description

DoorDash, Inc. is seeking a Senior Associate for Grocery Merchant Strategy & Operations on the New Verticals team. You will scale merchant partnerships, onboard SKUs and services, and improve quality across grocery offerings.

You will work closely with product, engineering, finance and analytics, leveraging AI to streamline processes and accelerate insights. The role sits in a hybrid model, reporting to a Manager on the New Verticals Strategy & Operations team, with a few in-person days each