Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations

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 Associate Manager to join the Strategy & Operations Growth and Markets team. You will own a portfolio of projects aimed at growing the core Marketplace business, working closely with DoorDash’s product, marketing, finance, and analytics teams.You’ll have the opportunity to help grow strategic markets, identify new growth bets, incubate 0-1 experiments, and execute on a roadmap to drive growth. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build and own. You’ll have your fingerprints all over DoorDash’s next wave of growth. You’ll do whatever it takes to launch, get 1% better every day, and scale something completely new, from high-level strategy down to the nitty-gritty operational details. Incubate. You’ll take bets that don’t have an owner yet, scope them, test them, and either graduate them into funded programs or kill them with a clear, well-argued recommendation. Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for growing segments and launching bets that no existing playbook covers. Experiment. You’ll turn strategies into operational experiments that create measurable, actionable outcomes, then use those results to shape the larger implementation plan. Analyze. You’ll pull your own data, assess the operational and financial impact of your decisions, and iterate based on what you find. Lead and collaborate. You’ll work with cross-functional partners across product, analytics, marketing, sales, and finance to get your initiatives resourced and shipped. We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in a problem-solving role: consulting, tech, banking, or similar. Experience taking something

About the Team AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash. About the Role As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time. You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will … Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model. Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes. Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation,

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent team within DoorDash. We explore robotics and automation to transform last-mile logistics in the long term. If you want to work on commercializing autonomy and robotics in a service used by millions of people — and on bringing the merchant partners who power that service along with us — then we want to talk to you! About the Role Come help us redefine last-mile logistics through robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies. Autonomy only works when merchants — restaurants, retailers, and other partners — can reliably interact with our robots: handing off orders, troubleshooting edge cases, and trusting the experience enough to keep using it. This role owns that side of the equation. We're looking for a Merchant Success & Growth lead to build the strategy and operational mechanisms that get merchants onboard, keep them performing, and turn their day-to-day reality into a tight feedback loop for product and engineering. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own merchant adoption and performance KPIs for autonomy end-to-end — defining what "successful merchant interaction with a robot" means, instrumenting it, and driving improvement against it. Build the playbooks and operational mechanisms to onboard merchants to autonomy — from first conversation through training, go-live, and steady-state ops — and scale them across markets. Partner with sales, account management, and field ops to recruit and ramp the right merchant cohorts for each stage of the product, and design experiments that test new merchant-facing features and handoff models. Define merchant performance benchmarks (handoff success rate, dwell time, dasher/robot interaction quality, merchant CSAT) and run the cadence that holds partners and internal teams accountable to them. Stand up the feedback loop from the field back to product and engineering — turning merchant complaints, edge cases, and frontline observations into prioriti

About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to sign and partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate and grow their businesses. As DoorDash grows both in scale and breadth of offering, the strength of our sales engine and organizational structure must grow with it. About the Role As Associate Manager, Sales Planning and Strategy at DoorDash, you will play a pivotal role in executing against top company business objectives and help define our sales strategy and planning roadmap. Your responsibilities will range from strategic (designing quotas and incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational (forecasting, designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will serve as a strategic thought partner to Sales leadership while driving operational discipline across the organization. You will own cross-functional programs end-to-end, ensuring alignment across Sales, Product, Finance, Analytics, and Sales Operations to achieve business goals while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. This role specifically supports our CAN SMB Presales or Enterprise Ads & Promos Sales organization spanning multiple sales motions and role types. You will be the primary planning and strategy partner for the sales organization supported, where quota attainment, goaling accuracy and consistency, and seller productivity are the north stars. This role will report into a Sales Planning and Strategy manager. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Become the subject matter expert on sales data, sales incentives, while also gaining a comprehensiv

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

About the Team The New Verticals Business Development team is a small, fast-paced, high-performing group responsible for establishing, managing and scaling new lines of business at DoorDash in the retail and logistics space. You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business. About the Role Your role will be focused on building out a team while managing and scaling enterprise level partnerships in the retail and logistics space. This role will get you in at the ground floor and operate at “start up” pace for one of DoorDash’s fastest and most promising new bets. As Associate Manager, Retail Partnerships you will report into the Senior Manager of Retail Partnerships in our Merchant Business Development organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Manage and cultivate enterprise relationships with leading retailers and ecommerce logistics players that will drive step change growth for DoorDash Lead renewals and upsell opportunities with existing merchant partners Shape product roadmap and go-to-market strategies based on merchant feedback Serve as the liaison between our partners and DoorDash leadership, product, legal, operations, and logistics teams Inform goals for growth and revenue (and its proxies); and advise on associated business resource needs Identify and pursue creative growth opportunities within the Drive organization We’re excited about you because… You have 8+ years experience in early stage business development, account management, client success, or strategic partnerships in technology or