Senior Associate, Strategic Initiatives - DoorDash Drive
About the Team
DoorDash Drive is our company’s hypergrowth fulfillment platform serving restaurants, grocers, and retailers across the United States and abroad. DoorDash Drive allows restaurants, grocers, and retailers to enable ecommerce fulfillment for their first-party experiences.
As part of the Drive team, the Senior Associate will have the opportunity to help define, test and scale Drive’s next biggest bets.
About the Role
As a senior associate on our Strategic Initiatives team, you’ll be responsible for designing and executing our go-to-market strategy for our next billion dollar venture.
You will be responsible for finding product market fit, building strategic go to market strategy, setting pricing, exploring the competitive landscape and running tests to prove hypotheses for new fulfillment products within the restaurant space.
You will set & own core goals for your business and will need to be highly cross-functional (product, eng, marketing, finance, etc) to achieve volume and profitability goals. The ideal candidate for this role should be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset, able to take ownership and create plans from scratch, and drive execution while obtaining cross-functional buy-in to achieve Drive’s strategic goals.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will …
- Build and own the business – Drive growth and adoption of some of our top priority projects
- Business development – Develop and foster deep relationships with top priority merchant partners to iterate and grow the business. Key Merchant point of contact within the Strategic Initiatives Strategy & Ops team
- Go-to-market strategy – Build a strong understanding of product market fit, value proposition, pricing, and the competitive landscape, and help the team develop a go-to-market strategy based on these inputs. Grow a high-potential offering within a high-growth business.
- Improve the product – Guide operational improvements for our merchant partners by understanding their needs and working with internal partners to design solutions throughout the product experience. Steer the Drive product roadmap informed by quantitative analysis and qualitative merchant feedback
- Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Product, Engineering, Finance, Analytics, Support, Sales and Account Management teams to drive growth and scale.
- Experiment – Evaluate and test various revenue, cost and quality drivers.
We’re Excited About You Because…
- You have a Bachelor’s degree or higher
- You have 3+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, or operations; high-growth/early-stage startup or entrepreneurial experience is a big plus
- Your expert communication and interpersonal skills set you apart
- You are a strong analytical thinker who can provide applicable recommendations out of a complex, sometimes murky, dataset
- You have a bias towards action and are able to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
- Your charisma allows you to excel at connecting with Merchants and internal teams to promote products and drive adoption
- You crave responsibility and want to shape the vision and direction of the company
- You’re willing to get your hands dirty and you’re open to feedback.
- You’re excellent at motivating potential partners to see the benefits DoorDash Drive will bring to their business
We expect this position to be filled by 3/25/2025.
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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 for all regular employees that includes a 401(k) plan with an employer match, paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefits, and several paid holidays. Paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (i.e. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, a commuter benefit match, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
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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DoorDash is a technology company that connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in the United States and Canada. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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