Associate Manager, New Verticals - Retail Selection Intelligence

About the Team

The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce by expanding our marketplace into Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail. Our Retail Strategy & Operations team decides what DoorDash sells, where we have gaps, and where to grow next, across categories like pets, flowers, home improvement, and more.

About the Role 

Retail is only as strong as its selection. As an Associate Manager working on Selection Intelligence, you'll play a vital role crafting our selection strategy, you’ll measure our existing selection for customers to identify areas of strength and opportunities to grow. You'll turn that analysis into clear recommendations on which merchants, brands, and categories to go after. You'll work closely with Business Development, Analytics, and Merchant teams to point them at the biggest opportunities.

This role sits between strategy, analytics, and operations. The best people here pull their own data, build the answer quickly, and use AI tools to do in hours what used to take weeks. The scope will keep evolving as those tools improve, and we want someone who finds that exciting. This is an individual contributor position and you will report into a Manager. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Have a direct impact on growth. Help shape Retail's evolving selection strategy in a fast moving vertical.
• Work across teams. Partner with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Analytics, Product, and fellow Strategy & Operations teammates.
• Work with a wide range of data. Pull from a variety of data sources, bring it all together, and use it to uncover opportunities, inform strategy, and see the results of your work.
• Drive action. Turn insights into decisions by partnering with teams across New Verticals.
• Be a builder. Build tools and resources that teams across New Verticals use every day.
• Have real autonomy. Move from ideation to execution quickly and deliver results with a high level of autonomy in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4-6+ years of experience. You've succeeded in a highly analytical, cross-functional setting (e.g., strategy, consulting, analytics, bizops, retail or CPG strategy, or a related field).
• You're strong with data. You're comfortable in SQL and Excel and use AI tools to move faster.
• You enjoy turning data into action. You take an analysis and turn it into a clear recommendation.
• You can make sense of ambiguity. You take a messy, open-ended question and work it into a clear answer.
• You blend strategy with operational rigor. You're equally comfortable at 10,000 feet and in the details, and you can move between the big picture and the weeds.
• You're a builder and an owner. You have a bias for action, take pride in the outcome, and like creating something from scratch.
• You communicate and influence well. You bring partners along without needing direct authority.
• Retail, CPG, merchandising, or marketplace experience is a plus, but not required.
• You have a completed 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.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here .

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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$105,400—$155,000 USD

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.

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If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Metaview.

How it works:  Metaview assists our recruiting team by evaluating job related qualifications and characteristics in connection with hiring. The tool is designed and used to support - rather than replace - human decision-making; trained personnel make final decisions with meaningful human review and oversight, and DoorDash does not use Metaview or other AI-enabled tool  in a manner that has the effect of subjecting applicants or employees to discrimination based on any protected characteristic or proxy or for engaging in any protected activity under applicable law.

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