Senior Manager, Performance Excellence

DoorDash High Volume; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership role

AI initiatives

Job summary

DoorDash is seeking a leader for the Teammate Enablement QA program within Customer Experience. You will manage a small team, drive automated QA metrics, and deliver actionable insights to improve policies and processes across product teams and vendors.

The role emphasizes AI-driven quality assurance, stakeholder collaboration, and ongoing performance improvements. You will report to the Director, Teammate Enablement, coordinate with cross-functional operations, and contribute to enterprise-wide

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in team management and 10+ years total experience in related fields.
• Experience in program management, vendor management, and cross-functional customer support.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team focused on identifying and fixing opportunities in quality assurance for customer service.
• Design, launch, and evolve the conversational intelligence program using AI to monitor and improve interactions.
• Drive QA strategy balancing manual QA with speech analytics to reduce poor experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to standardize processes and implement improvements in support quality.

Skills

Team management

AI implementations

Program management

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

About the Team

The Support Quality team’s vision is to “Provide teammates, team leads, and AI Agents with actionable feedback on 100% of cases so they can get 1% better every day. Deliver actionable business insight to wider S&O to help improve business policy and processes / Product teams to increase our customer experience.”

About the Role

You will report to the Director, Teammate Enablement, in our Customer Experience organization. The Teammate Enablement Team is responsible for ensuring that our Teammates have the resources (tooling, quality measurements, and knowledge base) and training to effectively and empathetically support DoorDash’s customers. Where opportunities are identified, we drive feedback to our business partners in order to empower Teammates to be 1% better every day for our customers.

The team’s primary role will be to: i) build automated QA metrics that have high coverage, precision, and low false-positive rates; ii) support all manual QA efforts, including incubation and scale-up of new measurements; iii) deliver actionable insights to our partner teams to help improve the processes and policies on our support experience, as well as insights for our vendors to drive better agent performance management; and iv) manage our QA tech providers to ensure they deliver against our ambitious roadmap.

This is a leadership role, with the expectation of managing the priorities of a small team while remaining accountable to key initiatives oneself.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead a small team centered around identifying and fixing top opportunities in our quality assurance programs that support customer service at DoorDash.
• Design, launch, and evolve our conversational intelligence program, utilizing AI technology to monitor, measure, and drive continuous improvements in our customer service interactions.
• Drive the strategy of our quality assurance program, identifying the right strategies to balance manual quality assurance with speech analytics programs to eliminate poor experiences for our customers.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional operations teams in creating and standardizing processes and implementing initiatives that improve the customer support experience via quality assurance data.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to direct the implementation of operational process improvement, ensuring best practices and country-specific views are reflected in product development with global partners.
• Ensure best-in-class processes and policies are embedded in our quality assurance program to maintain the highest standards in the support experience we provide for our customers.
• Create analysis and reports across different lines of business to monitor progress and identify areas for improvement through root cause analysis, based on key insights developed by your team.
• Report regularly on key business metrics to leadership across the Customer Support organization.

We’re excited about you because…

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience · 5+ years team management, 10+ years total experience.
• Experience in program management, consulting, vendor management, and/or supplier management within a cross-functional customer support organization.
• Experience driving large-scale AI implementations.
• Experience in project/program management is required.