Senior Associate, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations

DoorDash; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

16 weeks paid parental leave

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible paid time off

Wellness benefits

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Associate to join the Marketplace Strategy & Operations team in San Francisco. In this role, you'll enhance our restaurant marketplace by launching new selections and partnerships, leveraging your analytical skills and team collaboration.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of experience and a growth mindset. You will be responsible for driving marketplace revenue and engaging directly with diverse teams to implement innovative strategies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a problem-solving role (consulting, tech, banking).
• Extreme sense of ownership; ability to tackle ambiguous problems.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in SQL and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Own visible goals driving business performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strategize and launch new products to grow marketplace revenue.
• Maintain a sustainable marketplace for merchants and consumers.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Ownership

Collaboration

SQL proficiency

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

About The Team

Our US Marketplace Strategy & Operations team is responsible for building, scaling and improving the way in which we provide restaurant delivery. We build our restaurant selection, test 0 → 1 products to give merchants more opportunity to delight their consumers, and optimize ways to improve our marketplace to increase the return on investment our partners gain from partnering with DoorDash. This team focuses on all things restaurants ranging from selection, to merchandising, to consumer strategy, to leveraging our logistics network in new ways, to so much more!

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team, with a focus on restaurant growth. This team is dedicated to growing our restaurant marketplace by launching new selection, enhancing in‑app merchandising, helping negotiate new merchant partnerships, and commercializing products that help our restaurant partners grow their businesses on DoorDash. In this role, you will be focused on identifying and executing the most promising ways to grow marketplace revenue while deepening DoorDash’s partnership with its restaurant partners.

The ideal candidate will possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills, and a deep sense of ownership. If you’re excited about launching 0 to 1 projects, solving customer challenges, working in fast‑paced environments, and managing a marketplace business line with broad impact, this role is for you.

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Have ownership. You’ll own visible goals that drive both top‑line and bottom‑line performance of our core marketplace business.
• Collaborate. You’ll work in a highly cross‑functional environment with teams like Product, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and more.
• Strategize. You’ll bring new products and strategies to market, integrating new value propositions into our restaurant ecosystem.
• Operate. You’ll become an expert on running a sustainable marketplace business — creating value for merchants, Dashers, and consumers alike.

We’re Excited About You Because…

• You have 3+ years of experience in a problem‑solving role (consulting, tech, banking).
• You have an extreme sense of ownership — you never shy away from tackling ambiguous problems and can motivate teammates to go above and beyond.
• You solve problems from first principles and resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking.
• You thrive with a diverse set of responsibilities and love working across teams and disciplines.
• You’re an analytical powerhouse — you let data win arguments and are comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and modeling in Excel.
• You’re a collaborator with experience managing stakeholders across diverse audiences, from front‑line doers to senior executives.

Compensation

The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job‑related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market‑dependent and may be modified in the future.

In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.

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

Benefits

DoorDash offers 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, medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family‑forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

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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. 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. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

Accommodations

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.