Senior Associate, New Verticals - Logistics Strategy & Operations

Senior Associate, New Verticals - Logistics Strategy & Operations

About the Team

New Verticals is an exciting team at DoorDash that is building and scaling new ways to delight our customers, leveraging the DoorDash platform. New Verticals include the DashMart, Convenience, Alcohol, Grocery, and Retail businesses. These categories bring about new challenges and opportunities to build something at DoorDash from the ground up. Our Catalog, Fulfillment and Logistics pod focuses on enabling the operations behind each delivery and we are looking to expand our Logistics function!

About the Role

The New Verticals Logistics team’s goal is to drive cost savings while improving quality & efficiency for how we enable New Verticals delivery. Together, we're building the world's most reliable same-day logistics platform to fulfill our vision of empowering all local businesses. The projects we work on are diverse and have the potential to impact each side of our marketplace - from Dashers, to Consumers, to Merchants. In this role, you will focus on crafting and executing a winning strategy for New Verticals in our most strategic markets by finding ways to drive cost and efficiency savings while ensuring strong growth for the business.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Build. You’ll have your fingerprints all over DoorDash’s next big business. You’ll do whatever it takes to launch, get 1% better every day, and scale something completely new. This means everything from high-level strategy to nitty-gritty operational details.
• Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers.
• Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes.
• Analyze. You’ll assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate quickly based on data.
• Collaborate. You’ll work with a cross-functional team, including marketing, finance, legal, support, design, product, data science, engineering, and operations to build this new line of business for DoorDash.

We're excited about you because…

• You are a self-starter – You have a bias towards action and are able to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment.
• You work well cross-functionally – You have experience managing multiple different stakeholders and business partners, and are able to exert influence across organizations to achieve business outcomes.
• You are a problem solver – You can independently translate high-level goals into actionable plans.
• You are gritty – You roll up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to make things successful.
• You are analytical – You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and modeling in Excel.
• You are relentless and hungry to learn – You do what it takes to win, no matter what.
• You have 2-4+ years of experience - preferably in strategy & operations, consulting, investment banking, tech, etc.
• You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree.

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.

The base pay for this position ranges from our lowest geographical market up to our highest geographical market within the United States.

$78,200 — $115,000 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.

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.

If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.