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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! Senior Staff Backend Engineer About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance, enabling go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking a Senior Staff Backend Engineer to join our application teams and help set technical direction across multiple domains within engineering. You'll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers, and partner closely with engineering leadership to define, evolve, and scale the systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to own complex, multi-domain technical problems and shape product direction beyond a single team. We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the teams are in the EST time zone, but we have a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you'll be doing You will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our application stack across multiple domains. You will lead development efforts for our most complex initiatives, the kind that span two or more teams or product areas, and serve as a technical benchmark for system design, code quality, and long-term maintainability. You'll operate at the intersection of data modelling, business logic, and enterprise-scale reliability, and your work will often set standards that neighboring teams adopt. This remains a hands-on

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team The go-to-market team sits at the centre of Forma.ai’s growth engine, directly impacting pipeline, revenue, and our reputation in the market. This team is strategic, creative, and relentlessly focused on scaling an efficient, measurable go‑to‑market operation. What You'll Be Doing As a Sales Development Representative, you’ll help create new opportunities and build pipeline for Forma.ai. You’ll work closely with Sales and Marketing to identify the right prospects, engage decision-makers, and turn interest into qualified sales opportunities. Outbound & Prospecting Research target accounts and identify key stakeholders across Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, and Finance Execute personalized outbound outreach across email, phone, LinkedIn, and other channels Test and iterate on messaging, sequences, and outreach tactics to improve engagement and conversion Qualification & Pipeline Qualify prospects to understand their priorities, challenges, and potential fit for Forma.ai Book qualified meetings and create new pipeline for our Account Executives Use CRM and sales engagement tools to manage activity, track engagement, and stay organized Sales & Marketing Collaboration Partner closely with Account Executives on target accounts, messaging, and outreach Follow up with inbound leads, event attendees, and prospects engaged through marketing programs Work with

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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C$100K – C$130K/yr

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Strategic Commercial Account Executive About This Role This is one of the most critical positions at Sigma. The success of our business depends on bringing in the right customers, at the right stage of their growth, and this role focuses on the Mid Market accounts at the center of that effort. The right candidate will have the rare ability to open doors at the highest levels, navigate complex organizations, and drive deals that change the trajectory of both our customers’ businesses and ours. Sigma is growing at over 80% year over year, and this role is an opportunity to be at the forefront of that momentum. You’ll work directly with some of the best leaders in the industry, learning how to build relationships, influence decisions, and close transformative deals. If you succeed here, you won’t just have a great job—you’ll have a career-defining experience where you will earn your sales MBA. This role is based in San Francisco and is critical to the success of our business. It is not a remote position—you will be in the office four days a week, working side by side with some of the best in the industry. This is not just about being present; it’s about being immersed in a fast-moving environment where decisions are made, deals are won, and careers are built. Our office culture is passionate, collaborative, and rewarding. Travel: Travel is expected locally to the Bay Area and to the west coast 25% of the time. We encourage and do not limit in person meetings with prospects, customers, and partners. Who You Are: A high-impact, forward-thinking professional eager to drive innovation and shape the future of data-driven business strategy. A self-starter who thrives at a fast pace and takes ownership of big initiatives. Proven track record of multi-threading & navigating complex deal cycles with large ASP A strategic thinker who understands how data fuels transformation, decision-making, and competitive advantage. Runs value b

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📍 Toronto, Canada
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions. We tackle a wide range of challenges - from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. Driver Incentives Science owns the algorithms and systems behind incentive design, influencing driver engagement and marketplace efficiency — from real-time supply positioning to longer-horizon earnings and engagement programs. The team is responsible for designing pay and incentive mechanisms that are efficient and good for driver experience over the long run. As a Data Scientist specializing in Algorithms, you'll partner closely with product, engineering, and operations leaders to build and scale incentive systems, shape long-term mechanism design strategy, and deliver on critical business goals tied to marketplace efficiency and driver earnings. Candidates with strong optimization backgrounds — think mathematical programming, control theory, or operations research — are a great fit, though we welcome strong candidates from machine learning or causal inference as well. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and brings a hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset to drive results. Responsibilities: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design, implement, and iterate on new features and algorithmic improvements for driver incentives and pay mechanisms. Design, develop, and deploy optimization models, algorithms, and systems for problems such as budget allocation, multidimensional cost-curve development, and incentive targeting. Write production model code; collabor

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$108K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions. We tackle a wide range of challenges - from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. Driver Incentives Science owns the algorithms and systems behind incentive design, influencing driver engagement and marketplace efficiency — from real-time supply positioning to longer-horizon earnings and engagement programs. The team is responsible for designing pay and incentive mechanisms that are efficient and good for driver experience over the long run. As a Data Scientist specializing in Algorithms, you'll partner closely with product, engineering, and operations leaders to build and scale incentive systems, shape long-term mechanism design strategy, and deliver on critical business goals tied to marketplace efficiency and driver earnings. Candidates with strong optimization backgrounds — think mathematical programming, control theory, or operations research — are a great fit, though we welcome strong candidates from machine learning or causal inference as well. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and brings a hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset to drive results. Responsibilities: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design, implement, and iterate on new features and algorithmic improvements for driver incentives and pay mechanisms. Design, develop, and deploy optimization models, algorithms, and systems for problems such as budget allocation, multidimensional cost-curve development, and incentive targeting. Write production model code; collabor

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions.We tackle a wide range of challenges - from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. Lyft Business builds products that help organizations move the people who matter most - employees, customers, patients, and guests - easily and efficiently. Our offerings include Business Travel, Lyft Pass, and Concierge (for healthcare and non-healthcare rides), enabling companies to manage transportation at scale through APIs, integrations (e.g., Concur, Expensify), and dedicated tools. These platforms power high-impact B2B use cases across corporate travel, healthcare access, customer experience, and community programs. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead technical initiatives across the entire Lyft Business product suite. In this role, you will shape the technical vision, define algorithmic roadmaps, and drive execution for data science projects that accelerate growth, improve operational efficiency, and deliver measurable value to our enterprise partners. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Design, and Go-to-Market teams to build production ML models, experimentation frameworks, and advanced analytics that inform strategy and power product innovation. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role with direct influence on Lyft’s enterprise offerings. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in algorithm development, machine learning, causal inference, and experimentation, alongside strong business acumen in B2B contexts and a proven track record of t

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📍 San Francisco, CA· Full-time
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$128K – $160K/yr

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At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Data Science is at the heart of Lyft’s products and decision-making. Data Scientists at Lyft operate in dynamic environments, moving quickly to build the world’s best transportation solutions. We tackle a wide range of challenges—from shaping long-term business strategy with data, to making critical short-term decisions, to developing algorithms and models that power both internal systems and customer-facing products. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Data Scientist to join the Central Market Management team and lead key initiatives that enhance the quality of our overall decision-making. You’ll work cross functionally with other Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Product Managers, and Finance partners to make sure we are making the most financially efficient decisions to scale our business. You will identify gaps in our operational processes and measurements, and work to create strategies, frameworks, and models to help address them and deliver impact. Responsibilities Leverage data and analytical frameworks to identify opportunities for improving operational efficiency Define and implement decision frameworks, measurement strategies, and scientific methodologies that bring consistency and rigor to business decisions and forecasts, balancing opportunity and uncertainty Deliver integrated, high-quality analytical outputs spanning multiple projects while navigating ambiguity, cross-team dependencies, and open-ended scope Define and implement a robust attribution framework to evaluate the performance of high-stakes decisions Act as a technical lead, guiding other Data Scientists and fostering a culture of analytical excellence Write efficient, clean, production-level code (Python, SQL), ensuring reproducibility, documentation, and long-term maintainability of analytical assets B

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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The Sales Compensation Manager is vital for scaling and operationalizing Sigma's sales compensation process. You will ensure accurate, timely compensation payouts using expert analysis and refine processes, tools, and reporting to align compensation with business results. This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives on ownership, data integrity, and cross-functional collaboration between Finance, Revenue Operations, and GTM leadership. Key Responsibilities Commission & Incentive Processing Execute end-to-end commission calculation validation and processing for sales commissions and incentive payouts with high accuracy and precision. Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve calculation discrepancies and stakeholder escalations efficiently. Support compensation accruals and roll-up reporting in coordination with Finance close cycles. Systems & Platform Administration Manage Sigma’s compensation platform with the broader team. Ensure clean data flows between CRM (Salesforce), HRIS, ERP, and comp systems. Plan Governance & Communication Support administration of quota rules, crediting structures, and payout policies. Prepare clear plan documentation, and communication for GTM teams. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner closely with Finance, Sales Operations, HR/People, and Data to align comp mechanics with business strategy. Identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements that increase accuracy and reduce manual effort. Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in sales compensation, ideally within fast-scaling SaaS orgs. Advanced proficiency with Salesforce CRM, Sigma and spreadsheet tools. Familiarity with consumption-based models and usage-driven GTM strategies. Exceptional attention to detail, robust problem-solving skills, and a strong systems mindset. Effective communication skills with the ability to clearly translate complex compensation logic for both technical and non-technical audiences. Bo

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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The Sales Compensation Manager is vital for scaling and operationalizing Sigma's sales compensation process. You will ensure accurate, timely compensation payouts using expert analysis and refine processes, tools, and reporting to align compensation with business results. This role is ideal for a self-starter who thrives on ownership, data integrity, and cross-functional collaboration between Finance, Revenue Operations, and GTM leadership. Key Responsibilities Commission & Incentive Processing Execute end-to-end commission calculation validation and processing for sales commissions and incentive payouts with high accuracy and precision. Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve calculation discrepancies and stakeholder escalations efficiently. Support compensation accruals and roll-up reporting in coordination with Finance close cycles. Systems & Platform Administration Manage Sigma’s compensation platform with the broader team. Lead system updates, user access coordination and UAT Ensure clean data flows between CRM (Salesforce), HRIS, ERP, and comp systems. Plan Governance & Communication Support administration of quota rules, crediting structures, and payout policies. Prepare clear plan documentation, and communication for GTM teams. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner closely with Finance, Sales Operations, HR/People, and Data to align comp mechanics with business strategy. Identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements that increase accuracy and reduce manual effort. Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in sales compensation, ideally within fast-scaling SaaS orgs. Advanced proficiency with Salesforce CRM, Sigma and spreadsheet tools. Familiarity with consumption-based models and usage-driven GTM strategies. Exceptional attention to detail, robust problem-solving skills, and a strong systems mindset. Effective communication skills with the ability to clearly translate complex compensation lo

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About the Role The Machine Learning team at Tubi drives the innovation behind personalized user experiences. With the largest inventory in the industry and hundreds of millions of viewers, we tackle problems in the space of recommendations, search, content understanding, and ads optimization that shape the future of streaming. We are seeking a VP / Director of Machine Learning Engineering to lead and build a high-performing team while staying close to the technical work. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will set the strategic direction for our recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization systems, including recommendation foundation modeling, and you will stay in the algorithms and the code, conducting deep dives into modeling components and guiding the hardest technical decisions yourself. You will tackle complex machine learning problems at scale and partner closely with cross-functional teams to ship solutions that measurably improve how hundreds of millions of viewers experience Tubi. What You’ll Do Lead, build, and grow a high-performing ML engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and rapid iteration. Define and drive the ML strategy and long-term technical roadmap for recommendation, personalization, and ads optimization, including recommendation foundation modeling, identifying opportunities for ML to shape Tubi’s broader product and business strategy. Stay hands-on: conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring models are optimized for both performance and scalability across regions and product areas. Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced recommendation systems and algorithms, contributing directly to the most challenging technical problems. Build and deploy robust, full-stack ML pipelines: data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, deployment, and serving. Continuously monitor, evaluate, and optimize the performance of deployed models, ensuring

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📍 US-Remote· Full-time· Remote
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Network Partnerships team sits within the Partnerships organization and is a key component of Stripe's success. Our team is responsible for developing and managing relationships with critical partners, such as Visa, Mastercard, and American Express, which are fundamental to the success of Stripe's product strategy and delivering new capabilities to Stripe users. What you'll do We're looking for a US or Canada-based candidate to join our team to lead one of Stripe's critical network partnerships. The candidate will manage overall partner health, build internal strategy and business cases, drive deal negotiation and execution, and coordinate priorities with internal teams and external partners. The role requires close coordination with leadership, product and engineering teams, as well as cross-functional stakeholders including Legal, Finance, Risk, etc., and with external partners' leaders and senior executives. This is a high-impact individual contributor role that requires the ability to rally cross-functional teams and flex "general manager" skills to shepherd a meaningful portion of Stripe's P&L. Responsibilities Manage one of Stripe's most critical U.S. Network partnerships, with a focus on driving the execution of joint initiatives and launching new offerings to benefit Stripe users Leverage industry knowledge to craft thoughtful long-term partnership and product strategies, and execute deals and initiatives that support Stripe'

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$230K – $270K/yr

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Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. As we grow the engineering team, we are looking for engineering leaders who want to build great products, devising product development, prioritization and execution strategy as well as developing a strong team providing career development, coaching, mentoring, performance evaluations, developing promotion cases, and other managerial responsibilities. About the role: We are looking for a self motivated, engineering leader eager to lead engineering teams with high performing engineers. You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and support your teams to deliver incrementally against our roadmap. What you will be doing: Collaborate with cross-functional groups, executive team, field teams to devise business impact product strategy Enable the team to realize their potential and set them for achieving their career development goals Own execution and delivery of roadmaps, to help setup the business and your team for success Partner with the staffing team to recruit and build performing team Instill a strong sense of ownership and accountability within the team wherein members hold each other to a high bar Participate in discussions pertaining to the architecture and implementation techniques to represent, translate and optimize user directives into optimized queries You: Love working with world-class engineers, product managers, and architects to solve complex problems and enable business impact Have 5+ years of technical experience and 2+ years of people management experience Are opinionated and have great product sense make data driven decisions when unblocking the business Have hired, and developed high performing engineering teams Are curious, love to learn and to dig into new technologies to apply them when solving technical challenges Have demonstrated strong technical architecture and engineering skil

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $1.3M/yr

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About the Team We help Merchants access the financial products they need to grow and operate their businesses. DoorDash Capital is one of the company's fastest-growing bets, and our team owns the full growth engine from identifying unmet Merchant needs to launching products and scaling them. We obsess over how to deliver more value to Merchants through our platform and our financing partnerships, and we measure ourselves on adoption, revenue, and Merchant outcomes. About the Role You will report to the Director, S&O New Business on our DoorDash Capital team and own the growth of one of our newest bets with a key partner in the financing space. This is a 0-to-1 growth role: you'll take an early product and scale it to maturity by driving adoption, conversion, and revenue. You will have support from product, engineering, sales, and marketing. The ideal candidate is energized by finding growth levers, moving fast, running experiments, and learning from data in a high-velocity environment. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Strategize – Understand the needs of our Merchants, prioritize those needs by impact, and create solutions with cross-functional partners Build – Drive the implementation of new product features and processes for managing Merchant financial products Construct - Navigate in an ambiguous environment and bring structure to undefined opportunities. There won’t be playbooks or templates, instead you will create them. Analyze – Leverage data whenever possible to inform your hypothesis and convince cross functional partners. Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Development teams to align on a path forward and bring these products to market We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in strategy & operations / product management / investment banking / management consulting / mergers & acquisitions or relate

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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About the Team Our US Marketplace team is responsible for growing the DoorDash business in the US, helping customers to discover & order what’s best in their city, merchants to grow their sales, and dashers to find flexible work. About the Role The US Marketplace team is looking for a motivated and hands-on operator to be the Director of Local Markets. As a Strategy & Operations Director, you’ll be responsible for driving marketplace growth in every U.S. market, across a variety of market types. You will report into the Growth and Markets team, leading cross-functional collaboration between DoorDash’s marketing, sales, product, finance, and analytics teams to deliver new products and service level improvements to drive local market growth. You'll have the opportunity to help define new ways to grow locally, incubate 0-1 experiments, scope partnership opportunities, foster relationships with external partners, and execute on a roadmap to grow the marketplace at the local level. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead - From day one you’ll lead a team, helping the team to further develop the muscle of lowest level of detail analyses and execution rigor Business development - Develop relationships with new growth partners and top merchants Influence - Work cross-functionally across the US Marketplace Organization to help craft roadmaps, secure investment, and partner with other organizations to improve the user experience at local level Build – Explore growth opportunities alongside our partners in Product, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations teams Analyze – Shape and define our strategy based on quantitative and qualitative data, querying data directly and empowering yourself with AI tooling (Cursor, Claude) Operate – Figure out how to get from A to B–then actually make it happen. Grow – Help the business get 1% better every day. We're excited about you because… You have 10+ years of experience in strategy &

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📍 San Francisco, Canada
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About the Team The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can use strategy to identify areas of opportunity, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution. About the Role We are looking for a Finance Manager who will work with partners across DoorDash to ensure we are making the most efficient investment and capital allocation decisions while improving the experience for our merchants and other marketplace participants. You will help lead financial reporting, forecasting, and planning, and will guide financial insights and direction for all of our operational decisions and strategies. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Conduct weekly reporting of financial performance of DoorDash’s Merchant business, forecast key financial metrics based on quantitative analysis of historical data.Support quarterly financial planning, collaborate with cross functional business partners to identify growth areas and business priorities.Deep-dive into complex operational questions and collaborate cross-functionally outside Finance (Sales, Operations, Support) as well as within Finance (Accounting, Analytics, BI) to uncover the most optimal data-driven business decisions and investments.Identify key opportunities & risks to the business, quantify and evaluate the impacts, propose a solution and investment case, and ensure efficient execution. Leverage and apply knowledge of SQL, finance, analytics, and technology to manage financial reporting, forecasting, and quantitative analysis to assist DoorDash in making better business decisions. We’re excited about you because… 6+ years of experience overall, preferably from Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or Consulti

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