Senior Manager, Ads & Promotions Analytics

Role Description

As the leader of a large, high-performing team of data scientists, you’ll own the analytics strategy for DoorDash Ads for Restaurants—one of the company’s fastest-growing and most dynamic businesses. You’ll guide a team spanning multiple levels of seniority to drive insights and decisions across a multi-sided marketplace, optimizing across consumer and merchant outcomes. In your first few months, you’ll establish clear priorities, align cross-functional partners in product, engineering, sales, and strategy, and set the analytical vision for sustainable growth. Success in this role means delivering measurable business impact, elevating the quality of analytics across the organization, and building systems that balance advertiser ROI, consumer experience, and platform health. You will report into the Senior Director of Analytics on our Ads team in our Ads & Promos organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Lead and develop a high-performing analytics team, providing mentorship, feedback, and clear career development pathways.
• Define and drive the analytical and product roadmap by setting measurable goals and aligning cross-functional teams around success metrics.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to uncover insights, optimize funnels, and inform high-impact decisions.
• Apply advanced analytical methods—such as cohort analysis, regression modeling, and experimentation—to identify growth opportunities and guide strategy.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, staying creative and resourceful in solving complex problems with limited resources.

Qualifications

• You have 8+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or a related field, with the executive communication skills required to translate data into business impact.
• You’re an empathetic and effective people manager who prioritizes coaching, development, and team alignment.
• You bring deep expertise in SQL, A/B testing, and statistical analysis (e.g. hypothesis testing, regression modeling, experimentation).
• You have hands-on experience with funnel optimization, user segmentation, and time-series analysis, and can guide others in applying these techniques.
• You’re scrappy and strategic, able to navigate ambiguity, influence executive stakeholders, and deliver results under pressure.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including 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.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance.
• Mental health program.
• Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• Vacation accrued for hourly roles at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked.
• Paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

Company Description

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.

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.