Senior Manager, DashPass Strategy & Operations, Benefits and Merchant GTM

DoorDash; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Parental leave

Health benefits

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Manager, DashPass Strategy & Operations to own the merchant co-funding strategy behind DashPass. You will quantify benefits, build a credible business case, and turn that into scalable offers across varied merchant cohorts while ensuring merchant outcomes are weighed alongside member value.

You will collaborate across product, engineering, data science, marketing, finance, and commercial teams to drive measurable outcomes and scalable upfunding tactics that

Qualifications

• 8+ years in strategy & operations, commercial strategy, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the DashPass co-funding strategy end to end and build the business case for merchant funding.
• Quantify merchant value propositions and translate into repeatable pitches for commercial teams.
• Influence the promotions and monetization roadmap with clear, evidence-backed asks.
• Be the DashPass DRI in merchant conversations and size impact in long-term partnerships.
• Establish frameworks to ensure benefits drive merchant outcomes alongside member value.

Skills

Strategy & ops

Commercial strategy

Data analysis

SQL/Excel

Executive communication

Job description

About The Team

At DoorDash, we're redefining the future of on-demand delivery. At the center of this is our marketplace, connecting 30+ million customers on DoorDash with their favorite restaurants and brands! The Marketplace team focuses on growing our consumer business, including DashPass, our global subscription program. Our vision is to create the world’s leading membership program in local commerce, delivering unprecedented value and a world class experience to members.

About The Team

At DoorDash, we're redefining the future of on-demand delivery. At the center of this is our marketplace, connecting 30+ million customers on DoorDash with their favorite restaurants and brands! The Marketplace team focuses on growing our consumer business, including DashPass, our global subscription program. Our vision is to create the world’s leading membership program in local commerce, delivering unprecedented value and a world class experience to members.

About The Role

We're looking for a Senior Manager, DashPass Strategy & Operations to build and own the merchant co-funding strategy behind DashPass. DashPass benefits are what make membership the most valuable proposition in local commerce — this role is about making them sustainable and scalable by unlocking merchant investment in them.

You'll sit at the intersection of our consumer subscription business and our merchant and monetization teams. You'll define what merchants get from DashPass, quantify it credibly, and turn that into co-funded offers that scale across the full spectrum of merchant cohorts — from our largest Enterprise brands down to hundreds of thousands of SMBs, each with fundamentally different economics, decision-making, and tooling needs. You'll also be the voice ensuring the benefits we put in front of members are evaluated on merchant outcomes, not just consumer ones. Success in this role depends on building conviction with data and driving outcomes across product, engineering, data science, marketing, finance, and commercial teams without direct authority.

• Own the DashPass co-funding strategy end to end — define which benefits merchants should fund, at what level, and why; build the business case that makes it compelling for merchants and accretive for DashPass
• Build and defend the merchant value proposition for DashPass — quantify incremental volume, new customer acquisition, and order frequency attributable to DashPass, and turn that into a repeatable, credible pitch our commercial teams can carry
• Influence the promotions and monetization product roadmap — represent DashPass co-funding requirements for offer types, targeting, eligibility, and measurement, and bring a stack-ranked, evidence-backed set of asks
• Be the DashPass DRI in merchant commercial conversations — size the impact of DashPass components in long‑term agreements and partnerships, set the guardrails, and protect long‑term member and merchant economics
• Hold the member benefit roadmap accountable to merchant outcomes — establish the framework, metrics, and review cadence that ensure new benefits drive positive results for merchants alongside members, and bring a defensible point of view when the two are in tension
• Model complex tradeoffs and bring a strong POV to senior leadership — frame ambiguous, cross‑functional decisions with data and carry them to executives
• Experiment and scale — turn strategy into operational experiments with measurable outcomes, then build the processes and tools to scale what works

You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Own. Be the DRI for how DoorDash funds the most valuable membership program in local commerce, with end-to-end ownership of a strategy that’s still being written
• Build. Create the merchant value proposition for DashPass from first principles — the analysis, the narrative, and the offerings our commercial teams take to market
• Drive “visible from space” impact. Unlocking merchant funding at scale creates a new, durable source of investment in member benefits — materially changing the economics of DashPass and the business
• Model. Frame ambiguous, cross‑functional tradeoffs with data and carry a strong, defensible point of view to senior leadership
• Shape. Influence the promotions and monetization product roadmap by translating merchant and member needs into clear, prioritized requirements
• Influence. Drive alignment and outcomes across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, Finance, and our commercial teams without direct authority
• Experiment. Transform strategy into operational experiments that create measurable, actionable outcomes — then scale what works

We’re Excited About You Because…

• You have 8+ years of experience in strategy & operations, commercial strategy, management consulting, investment banking, business development, product operations, or a closely related field, with a track record of owning ambiguous, high‑stakes problems end-to-end
• You’ve built the business case for a two-sided value exchange — where a decision has to work for two different sets of stakeholders with competing economics — and can hold a credible point of view on both sides
• You’re comfortable in or adjacent to commercial conversations (MSAs, up‑front agreements, pricing, partnerships) and can hold your ground against counterparts with competing incentives
• You have strong quantitative and structured problem‑solving skills, can self‑serve data (intermediate+ SQL/Excel), and can defend your conclusions to skeptical executives
• You have a bias to action. You move quickly and thrive in a fast‑paced environment. No job is beneath you and you lead from the front
• You possess a “breakthrough walls” mentality. You are constantly pushing the envelope of what is possible and can figure out a way to make almost anything happen
• You have clarity of thought — you can articulate a clear vision to cross‑functional partners and are unafraid of ambiguity
• You communicate complex ideas clearly across technical, commercial, and executive audiences
• Subscription, marketplace, advertising, retail‑media, or merchant/SMB experience is preferred
• A 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.

• 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).

$170,000—$250,000 USD

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).

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. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well‑being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.

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.