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About the Team Our sales and partner management teams are the heart and soul of DoorDash, enabling us to partner with top restaurants across the country to drive revenue and help our partners operate even better. 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 Senior 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. You will be responsible for leading a team of sales planners and analysts. Your team’s responsibilities will range from strategic (designing incentives aligned to the company's goals and strategy, integrating new products into sales GTM strategy and building consensus among sales leadership) to operational/tactical (designing compensation plans, driving plan implementation and ensuring key metrics can be communicated, tracked and commissions calculated). You will bring a strategic mindset and deliver critical insights using analytical and technical support to the successful administration of sales incentive programs globally while proactively building partnerships, promoting open dialogue and creative insights expertise to issues in real time. Reporting to the Director of Sales Strategy and Planning, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to provide valuable insights and recommendations. This role will report to the Vice President of Revenue Operations within the Sales Strategy and Operations organization. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will be driving… Strategic Leadership : Lead a high-performing team of sales planners and analysts to to own the development, implementation and administration of new and existing sales incentive structures for our SMB Post Sales team. Cross-functional Collaboration : Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, O

About the Team The Spark Platform team owns and operates DoorDash's Apache Spark ecosystem — the execution runtime, remote shuffle service, cluster scheduler, and reliability tooling that powers the company's data, analytics, and ML workloads. We run Spark across the company at significant scale and continue to expand the workloads, capabilities, and consumer base we serve. Orchestrating and operating thousands of Spark cluster deployments is a complex distributed system problem which the team invests heavily in runtime optimization, systems architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, and end-user tooling. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Spark Platform, you will set the technical direction for our in-house Spark deployment and shape the architecture that will run DoorDash's data, analytics, and ML compute for the next five years and beyond. You will own the deep, cross-cutting problems that span the runtime, the shuffle service, the scheduler, and the overall service reliability — making the architectural calls that compound across the platform's lifetime. You will partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, and team shape, and act as the senior technical voice in cross-team partnerships with Data Engineering, ML Platform, and product engineering teams that depend on the platform. You must be located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, or New York City for this hybrid position. You will report into the Engineering Manager on our Spark Platform team. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Set the multi-year technical direction for an in-house Spark-on-Kubernetes platform — runtime, shuffle, scheduler, reliability — and make the architectural calls that compound for years. Own the deepest distributed-systems problems on the team: shuffle architecture, multi-tenant scheduling, runtime performance, and the failure modes that only show up at scale. Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical roadmap, hiring, inte

About the Team As DoorDash continues to expand rapidly, our Core Consumer team plays a pivotal role in shaping the consumer experience through enhancing personalization, search relevance, merchandising strategy, app quality, and the overall ordering experience. Our mission is to implement scalable data solutions and provide insights that directly influence our strategic product direction. We are looking for an Analytics Senior Manager to lead our Discovery team. About the Role As a Senior Manager of Data Science/Analytics, you’ll be leading a team of data scientists who are working on improving the consumer experience. You will develop strategic insights and work closely with the product, engineering, strategy and operations teams to actively build and measure the impact of new features. You will oversee our metrics and analytics strategy to inform strategic product direction, offer technical leadership and build processes to support velocity, and partner with data and product engineers to build robust data foundations. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and develop a team of Data Scientists in investigating complex issues and uncovering key drivers of our business, along with your own contributions as an Individual Contributor Influence the Product and Operations roadmap by making actionable recommendations based on data Interface frequently with senior leadership to showcase your team’s work and tackle complex business problems Drive measurement strategy for the area under scope, defining success metrics and implementing best practices around experiment design and statistical analysis Develop a strategic learning roadmap based on data observations, strategic questions, and hypotheses We're excited about you because you have… A degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a similar domain Experience managing a team of data scientists, and a track record of delivering impactful analyses 8+ years of experience i

About the Team The Consumer Engineering Team is responsible for helping consumers discover and order everything they love globally. Our work spans the entire consumer journey across homepage, search, store discovery, item exploration, checkout and post checkout. We aim to craft a hyper-personalized, delightful and frictionless experience for millions of our customers. About the Role As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on Core Cx, you will set the personalization (P13n) strategy for the entire consumer shopping journey and bring that strategy to life. You will use our robust data and machine learning infrastructure to implement new ML solutions to make the consumer search experience more relevant, seamless, and delightful across restaurant, grocery, retail and all business at DoorDash . You will modernize the recommendation system leveraging AI. You will demonstrate a strong command of production level machine learning, experience with solving end-user problems, and collaborate well with multi-disciplinary teams. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive the engineering vision, strategy, and execution for an organization of 150+ Grow, build, and nurture impactful business-focused product engineering teams. Scale the team by developing leaders internally and attracting world-class talent Mentor and guide a fast-growing organization in setting the right architectural patterns, working with various vendors in the space, and making judicious investments in the right areas anticipating what the company needs a few years down the road. Partner with Business, Product, and other Engineering teams to transform DoorDash from local commerce to agentic commerce We're excited about you because you have… B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. 10+ years of industry experience developing machine learning models with business impact, and shipping ML solutions to production. Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code) in th

About the Team At DoorDash, design means making experiences for the people who order, the people who prepare, and the people who deliver. As a Design Manager at DoorDash, you want to build things that matter to real people. You're at your best when you can move from idea to shipped product quickly, bringing experiences to life that reach and influence users at massive scale. You'll care about whether the product you make solved a real problem for real people, or changed how someone experiences their day. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with Engineering and Product Management, dig into the data, and use LLM-powered tools alongside traditional design tools. If the LLM powered tools don’t exist yet, you build them. About the Role Trust is the foundation of every interaction on DoorDash. We're looking for a design leader who can define and drive a vision for designing for integrity at scale. In this role, you will join the Integrity organization. You’ll lead a team of designers working across fraud prevention, trust, safety, and compliance — protecting millions of consumers, Dashers, and merchants while keeping the platform seamless and trustworthy. You will report into the Head of Design for our Customer Experience & Integrity organization. This role is hybrid- 1–2 days per week in one of our Design Hubs. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Set the technical direction for Design across your product area — decide what gets built, in what order, and why; connect multiple teams around shared platforms so the work compounds instead of duplicating Work on ambiguous problems and turn them into architecture decisions and working systems that teams actually use; earn trust with leadership not through decks, but through prototypes and shipped code that make your point for you Stay close to the code and the craft across multiple projects at once — you're not just reviewing, you're building; the work you ship will move real metrics across the product area

About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Reliability & Test Engineer to join our team. This individual will play a key role in the development and validation of our unmanned platforms at the system and component levels. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You will be hands-on in developing test methods and equipment to uncover failures before they happen in the field. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Architect and implement rigorous validation strategies, utilizing Python scripts for automation while leveraging CAD and shop tools to engineer bespoke test fixtures and hardware rigs. Oversee experimental execution across internal facilities and external laboratories, maintaining technical mastery over vibration tables, environmental chambers, DAQ systems, and ingress protection testing. Translate high-level vehicle reliability requirements into granula

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 assuranc

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 have a passion for applying robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! About the Role We're looking for an experienced technical operator to lead live testing, deployment, and operational validation of cutting-edge autonomous technologies. This role sits at the intersection of engineering and operations, helping ensure new capabilities are safely deployed, thoroughly evaluated, and translated into actionable engineering feedback. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and oversee live testing across transport, deployment, and safety validation. Partner closely with hardware, software, and business operations teams to validate new product capabilities while providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members. Conduct and document complex tests for autonomous technologies, evaluating robot behavior, identifying issues, and validating new features and requirements. Provide actionable technical feedback to engineering teams based on test outcomes. Exercise technical judgment during live testing by evaluating robot behavior, assessing operational risk, distinguishing expected behavior from product defects, and determining when engineering escalation or additional validation is required. Develop and implement testing processes, protocols, and checklists that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of new products. Utilize internal tools to analyze logs, investigate issues, document findings, and track issues through resolution. Mentor junior team members in structured debugging and documentation practices. Conduct detailed analyses and generate comprehensive reports that identify trends, summarize findings, and provide strategic recommendations to engineering and operations partners. We’re excited about you because… 2+ years of exper

Overview: The Insights product is a new offering for existing Guidepoint clients that offers teleconferences, in-person events and a call transcript library covering a wide of industries/topics that facilitate investment research. All content features experts from Guidepoint’s proprietary global network and is developed by former investment professionals (i.e. private equity/hedge fund) and sell-side equity research analysts. What You'll Do: Monitor a coverage universe of public companies within the technology sector by tracking earnings releases, investor presentations, SEC filings, sell-side research and industry news Create and moderate teleconferences on timely topics featuring an expert from Guidepoint’s network with the goal of producing actionable insights for clients Review teleconference transcripts to ensure quality of content High performers will be considered for full-time employment What You Have: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree Minimum 10 years of sell-side or buy-side analyst experience Must follow bottoms-up, fundamental approach to investment research focusing on individual companies Has covered Technology sector (Enterprise Software/SaaS, Internet (FANG etc) and/or Hardware/Semiconductors); candidates must be current on company/industry knowledge Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment Outgoing personality with the ability to speak with people at all professional levels Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn Effective time management and organizational skills Demonstrated ability to work both individually and as part of a team What We Offer: This is a full-time consultant role with the potential to convert to full time. The expected annual salary is $210,000 - $240,000. This rate may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as geographic location. You will also be eligible for the following benefits: Friday happy hour, “Summer Fridays”, and free snacks and bevera

Overview: Guidepoint's Engineering team thrives on delivering innovative technology solutions that accelerate revenue growth, reduce costs and increase efficiency and productivity. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to create new products and improve existing platforms to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. This is a hybrid position based in Pune. What You’ll Do: Design, build, and maintain a test automation framework. Automate test cases and design, develop, and execute reusable and maintainable automated scripts. Analyze issues related to automated and/or load testing, research and propose solutions, and add, modify, or enhance previously recorded automated scripts. Analyze test results and determine root causes of issues. Determine severity and scope of issues to guide prioritization for resolution. Provide regular software defect tracking and regression updates and present status and technical reports as required. Assist in planning, developing, and delivering training related to automated test tools and frameworks. Review, establish, and maintain thorough documentation, templates, and process improvements and communicate technical issues to engineering leadership and business stakeholders. Work closely with other engineering team members and departments on technical issues and updates. Keep abreast of technology trends and advancements within areas of specialization and incorporate improvements into the overall testing process. What You Have: 7+ years of experience in QA Automation engineering is a must. Experience with writing test scripts from scratch for manual testing Strong experience in automated testing practices and tools — Playwright/Selenium/Cypress/Any Othe

Our Recruitment Team & Our Values Guidepoint’s Recruitment team is an integral part of a company that prides itself on identifying the most qualified person for the job. Our team focuses on maintaining integrity and promoting diversity, highlighting our dedication to creating an environment where every candidate is treated equitably, regardless of their background. By utilizing innovative sourcing techniques, attending campus events, and expanding our brand presence, we attract and hire top talent from all over the world. The team consists of 35+ high-performing individuals from various backgrounds who work across 3 continents and 9 countries to make impactful hires for every department at Guidepoint. Your Role We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Recruiter to manage and drive end-to-end hiring for our Tokyo office. This individual will play a critical role in building our talent pipeline, elevating our employer brand, and ensuring we attract, assess, and hire top-tier talent. A Day in Your New Role: Own full-cycle recruitment for our Japan hirings across different departments, including sourcing, direct candidate outreach, interviewing, and offer management Develop and execute recruitment strategies aligned with business goals Build and maintain relationships with hiring managers across multiple departments Partner with hiring managers to forecast hiring needs, improve quality of hire, and drive a collaborative, consistent hiring process Implement data-driven recruitment practices and track key metrics (time to hire, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, etc.) Collaborate with the Global TA team to standardize processes and share best practices across regions What You Have: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field 2 to 3+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, in-house or agency Native fluency in Japanese Business level proficiency in English Strong

Overview: Guidepoint seeks an experienced Data/AI Engineer as an integral member of the Toronto-based AI team. The Toronto Technology Hub serves as the base of our Data/AI/ML team, dedicated to building a modern data infrastructure for advanced analytics and the development of responsible AI. This strategic investment is integral to Guidepoint’s vision for the future, aiming to develop cutting-edge Generative AI and analytical capabilities that will underpin Guidepoint’s Next-Gen research enablement platform and data products. This role demands exceptional leadership and technical prowess to drive the development of next-generation research enablement platforms and AI-driven data products. You will develop and scale Generative AI-powered systems, including large language model (LLM) applications and research agents, while ensuring the integration of responsible AI and best-in-class MLOps. The Senior AI/ML Engineer will be a primary contributor to building scalable AI/ML capabilities using Databricks and other state-of-the-art tools across all of Guidepoint’s products. Guidepoint’s Technology team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal application architecture and create new AI-enabled products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. What You'll Do: Architect and Build Production Systems: Design, build, and operate scalable, low-latency backend services and APIs that serve Generative AI features, from retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to complex agentic systems. Own the AI Application Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered applications, including system design, development, deployment (CI/CD), monitoring, and optimization

Overview: The Insights product is a new offering for Guidepoint's Institutional investment and corporate clients, that offers teleconferences, surveys, and in-person events. The teleconferences live in a transcript library portal, which covers a wide of industries/topics that enable our clients to make informed decisions. All content features experts from Guidepoint’s proprietary global network and is conceptualized and hosted by former investment professionals (i.e., private equity/hedge fund), sell-side equity research analysts, and industry professionals. Visit Insights team biographies at https://www.guidepoint.com/insights/#team. This position will be based in India and work closely with the Global Healthcare Insights team . What You’ll Do: Content Creation and Research Coverage : Monitor a coverage universe of public and private companies within the Medtech, Lifesciences tools and Healthcare Services sector. Track key industry trends, material news flows, earnings releases, investor presentations, research in key coverage markets. Identify and maintain a robust pipeline of company and industry specific topics — generate original ideas for discussion, covering business updates, event studies, channel checks, hot topics and other investment narratives Create and moderate teleconferences on the pipeline featuring an expert from Guidepoint’s network with the goal of producing actionable insights for clients Review teleconference transcripts to ensure quality of content. Summarize key discussion points Process Management: Ensure Guidepoint compliance policies and protocols are adhered to Exhibit ‘ownership’ for the call by vetting experts’ relevance to Insights Teleconferences and ensuring their profiles’ accuracy. Work with research teams to identify and recruit additional industry experts to our Expert Network; Manage and further develop relationships with both experts and clients What You Have: PhD or Masters degree in

Overview: The Senior Product Manager sets a clear, compelling product vision and is accountable for executing it. They are a self-starter, a visible organizational leader, a hands-on problem solver, and a relationship builder. The Senior Product Manager continuously builds institutional knowledge that spans all teams and functions within the company as well as a deep understanding of the evolving competitive landscape. They translate that vision into an executional roadmap, and drive it to delivery across web, mobile and MCP. They go deep into how each client segment actual works by sitting with users, mapping end-to-end workflows, and translating what they learn into product features. They own feature prioritization and the backlog. They will author stories and participate in the agile product development cycle. This is a hybrid position based in Toronto. What You’ll Do: Segment Depth: Develop an expert-level understanding of each client segment's end-to-end workflow. Translate that understanding directly into product requirements, features, and prioritization decisions, so the roadmap reflects how clients actually work rather than how we assume they do. Customer Focus: Champion the voice of the customer across all initiatives. Gather and synthesize customer needs and pain points through both quantitative data (and qualitative insights. Product Vision & Roadmap: Own, articulate, and execute a clear product vision and strategy, and rally the organization behind it. Leverage insights from market research, competitive analysis, customer feedback, and performance metrics to prioritize and shape the product roadmap. Lead quarterly and annual planning, ensuring clear goal-setting and metric tracking aligned with business objectives. Product Evangelism: Serve as the primary advocate for your product internally and externally. Lead product rollouts, including developing training materials, documentation, and leading both virtual and in-person product

Overview: The Insights product is an offering for Guidepoint's Institutional investment and corporate clients, that offers teleconferences, surveys, and in-person events. The teleconferences live in a transcript library portal, which covers a wide of industries/topics that enables our clients to make informed decisions. All content features experts from Guidepoint’s proprietary global network and is conceptualized and hosted by former investment professionals (i.e. private equity/hedge fund), sell-side equity research analysts, and industry professionals. All applicants must have the right to work in the UK. What You'll Do: Monitor single name corporate credit situations in European markets including new issues, distressed, restructuring/re-orgs, and price dislocations in both leveraged loan and high yield markets. Create original, sell-side type content on these topics Conduct bottoms-up company research including reviewing earnings releases, reading investor presentations and analyzing regulatory filings Moderate teleconferences on timely topics featuring an expert from Guidepoint’s network with the goal of producing actionable insights for buy-side clients Generate ideas and follow key investor views among relevant strategies within European credit Can be an in-person position or a fully remote work-from-home position What You Have: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree 7 years or more of sell-side or buy-side analyst experience Follow a bottoms-up, fundamental approach to investment research focusing on individual companies Has prior experience covering single name corporate credit across both bank loan and high yield markets with a European focus; must be proficient in corporate credit analysis, with an emphasis on either loan / High Yield or Distressed strategies Ability to work in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment Outgoing personality with the ability to speak with people at all professional levels Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn Effective ti