Senior Associate, New Verticals - Grocery Strategy & Operations

DoorDash; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with employer matching

Paid parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Associate for their Grocery Strategy & Operations team in Washington, D.C. The role involves defining market strategies, managing growth initiatives, and utilizing AI for innovative solutions. You will leverage your analytical skills and experience to drive metrics and improve operations within the grocery sector. The position operates in a hybrid model, providing flexibility while aiming to innovate and simplify grocery shopping experiences. Compensation is competitive, with a salary range of $87,000–$128,000.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in tech, operations, consulting, or related fields.
• Proficient in SQL for data extraction and analysis.
• Experience in highly analytical and cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Define go-to-market strategies for grocery initiatives.
• Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate business programs.
• Lead cross-functional teams to grow the grocery business.

Skills

Analytical skills

SQL proficiency

Prototyping ideas

Collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

About The Team

The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce through expanding our product offerings on our marketplace platform. We launched in 2020 and have since then built world‑class operations to delight our customers with access to Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail delivery through our marketplace. This team shapes the future of DoorDash Grocery. Join us in our global mission to empower and grow local economies!

About The Role

As we continue to scale our Grocery business, we’re looking to hire a few Senior Associate onto our Grocery Strategy & Operations team! In this role, you’ll define go‑to‑market strategies, launch and manage growth and quality initiatives, and dive into data to identify opportunities that will inform our product strategy. Every initiative you work on will impact the grocery business by focusing on identifying new ways to attract, retain and engage consumers. You will be solving problems like learning how we can create an end‑to‑end in‑app grocery experience that’s better than shopping in‑store and defining how consumers shop for key categories like meat, produce, and dairy in the app.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and product. The best operators today are rapidly prototyping ideas, building mocks for user research, putting together product visions, and synthesizing complex analyses — all with the leverage of AI tools. We expect this person to stay at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the work, actively exploring new tools, automating repetitive workflows, and finding ways to do in hours what used to take weeks. The scope of this role will continue to evolve as AI tools become more powerful and accessible, and we want someone who finds that trajectory exciting rather than unsettling.

This role is based in New York, San Francisco, or Seattle. We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together!

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers.
• Operate. Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
• Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments — and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
• Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes.
• Build with AI. You'll use AI tools to rapidly prototype consumer-facing ideas, create mocks for user research sessions, synthesize qualitative Cx feedback at scale, and develop product visions — compressing what used to require weeks and multiple teams into a single afternoon. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day‑to‑day work, and share what you learn with the team.
• Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and influence cross‑functional teams including growth, quality, design, marketing, partnerships and product team to build and scale the Grocery business.

We’re Excited About You Because…

• You have 2-4+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross‑functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
• You're an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome – both the good and the bad.
• You're entrepreneurial. You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
• You're analytical. You let data win arguments, and you're comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
• You solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high‑level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process.
• You're equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot. You don't hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you're just as comfortable thinking long‑term and inspiring a team.
• You're unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environment.
• You're energized by AI tools — and you actively experiment with them. You don't wait to be told how to use a new tool; you've already tried it. You bring a builder's mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team. You're comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
• 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. Talk to your recruiter for more information.

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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$87,000—$128,000 USD

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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