Senior Associate, New Verticals - Fulfilment Strategy & Operations

Doordash; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 87,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

DoorDash’s New Verticals Central Ops is seeking a Senior Associate to drive strategic and operational initiatives across Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail. You will scope, go-to-market, and iterate product features, improve in-store tooling, and collaborate with ML, Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams.

This role sits in the Central Ops group within New Verticals Strategy & Operations and reports to a Manager.

Qualifications

• Analytical mindset with data-driven decision making; SQL experience a bonus.
• Own and deliver on improving key metrics and plans.
• Lead cross-functional streams with Engineers, Data Scientists and Designers to develop best in class product features.
• Bachelor’s degree completed.

Responsibilities

• Scope, go-to-market, and iteration of product features for New Verticals Central Ops.
• Improve in-store tooling, delivery quality, and inventory accuracy.
• Collaborate with ML, Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

About the Team

New Verticals is an exciting team at DoorDash that is building and scaling new ways to delight our customers beyond restaurant deliveries (e.g., Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail). Our Central Ops team has three major mandates: to effectively onboard merchants, fulfill every order with speed & accuracy and improve our logistics network. We are able to do this by identifying efficiencies, building product tooling and launching operational processes at scale. You will own metrics, pull operational & product levers and drive impactful results across our Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol and Retail businesses.

About the Role

We are looking to build out our team with a Senior Associate who will focus on a variety of strategic and operational initiatives on the New Verticals Central Ops pod. You will lead the scoping, go-to-market, and iteration of cutting-edge product features to help DoorDash improve order quality and selection across our Convenience, Grocery, Alcohol, and Retail businesses. You will work on high-impact operational and product initiatives — from improving in-store tooling and technology to strengthening selection coverage and inventory accuracy. Your work will be highly visible, and involves partnering with the Machine Learning, Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams. You will sit in the Central Ops group within our New Verticals Strategy & Operations organization and report into a Manager. This is an individual contributor position.

• Analyze: You love working with data and using data to drive business decision-making. You love talking to customers, unpacking their feedback, coming up with improvement opportunities and are familiar with SQL.
• Strategize: You will own and deliver on improving key metrics. You will create quarterly and annual plans that push our business forward and are aligned with our product capabilities. You will help these teams identify opportunities for enhancing our existing product offering and methods to improve delivery quality.
• Lead: You will help lead cross-functional work streams of Engineers, Data Scientists and Designers to develop best in class product features that will enhance the quality of New Vertical deliveries.
• Own: You love owning problems end-to-end. You display ownership for the products and business lines that you are responsible for. You never shy away from raising your hand to solve ambiguous problems and are able to motivate and empower your teammates to go above and beyond.

We’re excited about you because… You’re analytical. You have a data-driven mindset, live and breathe numbers, and use them to understand problems and tell stories. You’re very comfortable using Excel and visualizing data (SQL experience is a bonus!) You are an operator. You don’t hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you’re also able to think long-term. You are excited to experience our operation firsthand to inform your strategy. You have 1-3+ years of experience. Ideally in consulting, strategy, operations, technology, banking, food & beverage, high-growth startups, etc. You solve problems from first principles. You’re excited to think innovatively, and you resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking.

You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree.

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.

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. $87,000 - $128,000 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.

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.

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.

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