Associate Manager, New Verticals Strategy & Operations - Merchant Finance

About the Team New Verticals is building DoorDash’s business beyond restaurants into categories like grocery, convenience, alcohol, and retail. Our Strategy & Operations team turns high‑level goals around selection into clear plans and day‑to‑day execution for our merchants by partnering with product, finance, tax, operations, sales, and support. We focus on merchant experience, building sophisticated financial operating models and reliable reconciliation across New Verticals merchants in the US, while also considering the needs of global enterprise merchants. About the Role This role owns the core systems and processes that make sure Enterprise New Verticals merchants are billed, taxed, and paid accurately and consistently. You will sit at the intersection of product, finance, tax, and go‑to‑market teams to translate merchant needs into product requirements and operational workflows, and to make sure changes land cleanly for the field. In your first months, you will learn our current fee, tax, and payout structures, take over key recurring workflows, and then lead improvements that reduce issues and improve clarity for merchants and internal teams. Over time, you will shape how we launch and iterate on merchant‑facing features that affect money flows in New Verticals. You will report into the Senior Manager, Enterprise New Verticals on our New Verticals Onboarding & Excellence team in our Merchant Strategy and Operations organization. What you will do Lead key workflows for merchant fees, billing, payouts, and tax application for U.S. Enterprise New Verticals merchants, with consideration for global enterprise merchants. Own the Merchant Finance Product Roadmap, acting as the Product Operations partner and voice of the New Verticals merchant in product prioritization discussions related to invoicing, tax, and payouts. Design and improve processes and products to triage and resolve payment, invoicing, and tax issues, including clear ownership, routing, and escalation paths. Support product builds from idea to launch with business cases, success metrics, and rollout plans for merchant‑facing changes. Create and maintain clear internal documentation and communications so Partner Managers and downstream Accounting and Support teams can explain changes and handle questions from merchants. Why you’ll excel in this role You have 5–10 years of experience in strategy and operations, business operations, consulting, product operations, or similar analytical roles. You are comfortable working with financial concepts like pricing, fees, discounts, taxes, and payouts, and partnering closely with finance and tax teams. You can structure ambiguous merchant or payment problems, work across teams to find root causes, and drive a clear plan to fix them (or use AI to solve the issue). You can work with data (for example in spreadsheets or SQL) to size problems, build simple models, and track performance of your work. You communicate clearly in writing and in meetings, and you can explain complex topics in simple, direct language to different audiences. You have experience leading and influencing multiple teams and senior leadership through complex, highly‑cross‑functional projects. 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. Benefits 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. 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. We mandate mandatory mandatory paid time off. For salaried roles, flexible paid time off/vacation plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year. For hourly roles, vacation accrues at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked, and paid sick time accrues at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked. To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page. 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