Director, Support Partner Strategy & Operations

About the Team

Customer Experience & Integrity (CXI) is one of DoorDash’s core operations teams. We ensure that when challenges arise in the last mile, there’s always someone ready to make things right. Our team designs, manages, and operates DoorDash’s global network of support centers, with the ultimate goal of delivering a consistently exceptional customer experience.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Director, Partner Strategy & Operations to shape the global model for how DoorDash delivers support experiences. This is a transformative role that goes beyond day-to-day queue management—it’s about redefining how we serve customers at scale. The Director will drive innovation across our global partner network, designing and executing customer-centric, insight-led systems that reduce friction, unlock efficiency, and enhance lifetime value.

Rather than focusing solely on SLA oversight or ticket volume, success in this role is measured by long-term impact: building scalable operating models, improving cost structures, and driving experience-led retention.

In this role, you will:

• Design and operationalize systems that reduce friction, improve recovery rates, and retain customers after high-impact defects.
• Drive operational levers across the partner network to deliver cost-per-contact improvements, maximize tooling ROI, and strengthen customer loyalty.
• Lead business-critical transformations that align support delivery with company goals around automation, contact reduction, and retention.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

Own the Strategy

• Shape the end-to-end partner journey, turning vendor relationships into seamless, customer-first experiences.
• Simplify and streamline our partner network, shifting away from complexity and toward high-impact, scalable models.
• Translate Voice-of-Customer insights into a multi-year roadmap of initiatives that elevate the support experience.
• Lead bold bets in AI transformation, ensuring operational innovation drives measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Partner across Network Design, Finance, Product, and S&O to align investment decisions with customer experience quality.

Drive Execution

• Lead operational innovation across 4–8 global BPO partners, ensuring design, tooling, and processes bring DoorDash’s CX strategy to life.
• Measure success by strategic impact—cost per issue, recovery effectiveness, and simplification-driven savings—rather than just KPIs.
• Build and scale tools and playbooks that empower partners and consistently improve customer outcomes.
• Run strategic planning cycles for Partner Ops, aligning global partners to transformation priorities and scaling capabilities across the network.

Influence Across the Organization

• Act as the operational architect connecting internal experience goals with external partner delivery.
• Shape company-wide support investments by embedding Partner Ops into self-service strategy, automation rollouts, and product feedback loops.
• Represent the global support network in OKR setting, roadmap prioritization, and design reviews to ensure customer experience is always at the center.

Lead a High-Performing Team

• Set the vision, leadership model, and culture for Partner Ops—grounded in ownership, empathy, and operational excellence.
• Lead and grow a team of 5+ operations leaders while influencing thousands of vendor teammates worldwide.
• Attract and develop senior talent with expertise in CX, quality, and vendor strategy.
• Foster a culture of high accountability, collaboration, and transparency—helping your team (and partners) do the best work of their careers.

We’re excited about you because…

• 10+ years of leadership experience in Customer Experience or vendor operations within a fast-scaling tech or services organization.
• Proven track record managing large-scale global support networks (10,000+ agents) with accountability for both performance and financial outcomes.
• Strong cross-functional collaborator who has partnered across CX, Strategy & Operations, Finance, Product, and Legal to deliver change at scale.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous, high-growth environments —skilled at breaking down silos and turning strategy into measurable results.
• Customer-obsessed leader who balances empathy with operational discipline to deliver world-class support experiences.

We expect this position to be filled by 10/21/2025.

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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.

$189,700 — $279,000 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 with door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known for delivering 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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