Senior Associate, DashMart - Growth Strategy & Operations

Senior Associate, DashMart - Growth Strategy & Operations

New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Tempe, AZ; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington D.C.

About the Team

Our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team is re-inventing the way consumers think about grocery, convenience, alcohol and retail delivery through both our first-party and third-party operations businesses. DashMart is our first-party offering which serves as a fulfillment platform for DoorDash customers when they need essential items in a hurry including groceries, household essentials, local favorites and so much more. We have sites all over the country and are expanding the selection we carry and services we offer our customers today!

About the Role

We are hiring two Senior Associates within our DashMart Strategy & Operations team to contribute to several different growth initiatives across the platform. You'll identify opportunities to increase volume and customer engagement via platform level initiatives, category growth levers, pricing, promotions, quality, and merchandising initiatives with the goal of increasing consumer volume within the DashMart offerings. You'll work closely with Category Management, Product, Marketing, Finance, CRM, and Strategy & Operations partner by leading cross-functional initiatives, conduct deep-dive analyses, and help shape DashMart's growth strategy while delivering measurable business results. You'll be considered for two roles throughout the interview process and we align based on role fit, which scope is best for you based on your past performance & interview feedback.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and product. The best operators today are rapidly prototyping ideas, building mocks for user research, putting together product visions, and synthesizing complex analyses all with the leverage of AI tools. We expect this person to stay at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the work, actively exploring new tools, automating repetitive workflows, and finding ways to do in hours what used to take weeks. The scope of this role will continue to evolve as AI tools become more powerful and accessible, and we want someone who finds that trajectory exciting rather than unsettling.

We operate in a hybrid model and spend a few days a month in person together in-office and at team offsites! All employees that work on DashMart spend some time visiting DashMarts as well to understand the operation.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will

• Strategize. From first principles, you'll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers and categories.
• Operate . Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
• Analyze . Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
• Experiment . You'll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes
• Build with AI . You'll use AI tools to rapidly prototype consumer-facing ideas, create mocks for user research sessions, synthesize qualitative Cx feedback at scale, and develop product visions compressing what used to require weeks and multiple teams into a single afternoon. You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team.
• Lead, collaborate and Influence . You'll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, design, marketing, partnerships and product team to build and scale the Grocery business.

We're excited about you because

• You have 2-4+ years of experience. You've succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
• You are an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome both the good and the bad.
• You're entrepreneurial. You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
• You're analytical. You let data win arguments, and you're comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
• You solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process
• You're unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environment
• You're energized by AI tools and you actively experiment with them. You don't wait to be told how to use a new tool; you've already tried it. You bring a builder's mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team. You're comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
• You have a completed Bachelor's Degree ideally in business management, economics, finance, marketing or a related Business field.

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).

$87,000 - $128,000 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 usersfrom 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.

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