Senior Associate - Strategy & Operations - Insurance

About the Team

The Risk & Insurance team at DoorDash is building the next generation of insurance capabilities for the company from the ground up. Insurance is one of DoorDash’s largest cost of revenue items, making this a highly impactful area with meaningful influence on the company’s bottom line. We partner across insurance, operations, and product development to create solutions that improve safety, reduce costs, and support long-term growth. This is a fast-evolving space with the opportunity to help shape new programs from early concept through launch and scale. We are looking for forward thinkers who are excited to build in a zero-to-one environment and work closely with cross-functional teams across DoorDash.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Senior Associate, Insurance S&O to help drive the operational, analytical, and cross-functional work needed to launch and scale multiple insurance initiatives in parallel. This person will support go-to-market execution through experiment management, reporting, vendor and procurement follow-through, and day-to-day program management, helping the team translate insights into product adoption and business impact. You will report into the Insurance Strategy & Operations lead on our Risk & Insurance team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Run high-velocity operational tests and pilots that generate insights and help shape new products and programs from zero to one.
• Partner with Analytics and cross-functional teams to track performance, synthesize learnings, and inform go-to-market decisions.
• Support execution across a portfolio of insurance initiatives as they move from early concept through launch and scale.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to drive vendor readiness, procurement follow-through, and operational launch execution.
• Help build the processes, reporting, and operating rhythm needed to support growth, including international expansion.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 4+ years of experience in Strategy & Operations, Product Operations, consulting, program management, or a related field.
• You have strong analytical skills, including experience using SQL to answer business questions or evaluate performance.
• You have experience independently managing complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
• You can communicate clearly in written and verbal formats and turn data and ambiguity into structured recommendations.
• You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment and balancing executional detail with broader business context.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

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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