Associate, Dasher & Logistics - Product Operations Strategy & Operations

Associate, Dasher & Logistics - Product Operations Strategy & Operations

New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA; Dallas, TX

About the Team

DoorDash Drive is our company's hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers and retailers across the United States, Canada and Australia. The Fulfillment team is responsible for driving the strategy, profitability, and operations across each vertical. In this fast-growing, high-energy environment, you'll drive innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality and efficiency.

About the Role

At DoorDash, we believe that the reliability and quality of our service is our competitive advantage, and we are looking for a leader who is passionate about digging into the data to root cause operations and delivery problems in order to create a seamless experience for customers and merchants alike. As an Associate, Product Operations Strategy & Operations on the Dasher & Logistics team, you will play a key role in analyzing, tracking, and improving delivery quality, partnering with cross-functional teams to identify trends, support network cost strategies, scope impactful initiatives, and support the execution of quality improvement strategies.

Your work will be both strategic and deeply operational. You can either one day be sizing the impact of key product initiatives to support long-term quality improvements, then leading an experiment to drive real-world improvements. Or the next owning the charge on continuous improvement initiatives related to transportation cost efficiency and network optimization.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will

• Own quality improvement workstreams: that address the most unique and challenging questions within the warehouse network team on how to improve quality.
• Own network transitions: that redesign and redefine the transportation network through carrier, quality, and cost strategies
• Run experiments and operations tests: assist in structuring and executing operational tests to identify solutions for reducing defects like mis-sorts or delivery delay times.
• Support execution at scale: after proving out a concept, translating the wins into scalable solutions that we can apply across the entire network.
• Drive analytical rigor: by building and owning models that track new product launch success, key quality metrics, weekly and annual costs, and support the development of internal reporting tools to measure and monitor network performance.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships: by regularly partnering with Logistics, LiveOps, Analytics, Engineering, and Product teams to build quarterly roadmaps, scope and assess initiatives that can improve the efficiency, quality, and cost of the logistics system.

We're excited about you because

• You're strategic and process-oriented: You can break down challenging problems, build hypotheses supported by data, and implement experiments while keeping our teams aligned and informed with your work.
• You're highly analytical: You are fluent in data and modeling (Excel, SQL, Python, Sigma, or network modeling tools) and use it to ground your decisions.
• You thrive in scaling environments: You're comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
• You're cross-functional: You've led initiatives that align operations, product, and finance around a shared strategy.
• You have deep logistics experience: 2+ years in transportation, supply chain strategy, consulting, or operations roles, with experience in carrier selection, SLA design, or network optimization.
• You deliver results: You've driven measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.

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Compensation Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location. 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).

$74,800 - $110,000 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.

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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