Manager, Dasher & Logistics Strategy & Operations (Los Angeles)

About the TeamThe Dasher & Logistics team supports the millions of Dashers who power DoorDash's marketplace. We're building the world's leading last-mile logistics platform — and at the center of that is creating the best experience for gig workers to achieve their financial goals. We own the full Dasher lifecycle — from acquisition and onboarding, to earnings and order assignment, to rewards and recognition for the best Dashers. We partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to create a seamless experience for Dashers, whether it be their first dash or their 500th.About the RoleYou will play an integral role in shaping our Dasher strategy at DoorDash. Your primary goal will be to improve Dasher retention and engagement by identifying key pain points, getting deep into how the system operates on the ground, and translating those insights into high-impact bets that improve the Dasher experience. You’ll define what a great Dasher experience looks like in practice, build the programs and partnerships that support it, and develop the tools and feedback loops needed to measure Dasher sentiment and ensure the Dasher voice is represented in key decisions across the organization. You’ll scale impact through close collaboration with cross-functional teams. Success in this role means building a stronger, more engaged Dasher ecosystem that improves marketplace reliability and creates long-term value across DoorDash’s audiences. You will report directly into a Director on our Dasher & Logistics team within the Strategy & Operations organization.You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…Shape business strategy by combining data, marketplace insights, and first-principles thinking to identify the highest impact opportunities to improve Dasher retentionDrive ideas from concept to scale by incubating, testing, and scaling 0-1 programs, partnerships, and operational bets that improve key KPIs and the overall Dasher experienceCollaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to bring your ideas to lifeRepresent the Dasher voice across the organization by building the tools, processes, and feedback loops that keep stakeholder decisions grounded in Dasher needsWe’re excited about you because…You have 5+ years of experience in high-growth environments (tech, fintech, strategy & ops, consulting, banking, policy, nonprofit)You are curious, entrepreneurial, and thrive in zero-to-one environments. You are a self starter who is energized by a difficult problem and you aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty or try new things in order to create the future.You are an exceptional problem solver who thrives on data-driven decision-making (comfortable with SQLAbout the TeamThe Storage teams build and operate online stateful systems and abstractions that are reliable, efficient, secure and easy to use for DoorDash Engineering. The teams are responsible for understanding Product Engineering’s evolving needs and developing platform and infrastructure capabilities to serve them. The team currently supports CockroachDB, Cassandra, Kafka and Redis as well as data abstraction services to reduce the complexity of interacting with storage systems for Product Engineers.Notice Regarding Use of AI and Automated Tools: To streamline our hiring process, DoorDash utilizes an automated recruitment tool called Gem.How it works: Gem 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 Gem 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.Data Retention, Privacy & Bias Audit: Data collected during this process is retained in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy and applicable state laws. In compliance with New York City Local Law 144, the independent bias audit summary for Gem is publicly available for review at our Careers Page. CompensationThe 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.$136,000—$200,000 USDAbout DoorDashAt 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 InclusionWe’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. 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