Associate, New Verticals - Flex Strategy & Operations

About the Team

The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce by expanding our product offerings on our marketplace platform. We launched New Verticals in 2020 and have since built a delivery platform enabling delivery across Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail third-party partners and through our homegrown DashMart business. Our Strategy & Operations team covers everything from merchant strategy to consumer experience to dasher experience and beyond.

About the Role

We are hiring two team members to join our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team to focus on our highest-priority initiatives at any given time. You may work on growth initiatives for a few months, then pivot to supply chain, logistics challenges, or other priority work. This role offers exposure to company-wide initiatives and high-priority sprints across multiple verticals, while enabling you to make a big and quick impact. You’ll gain breadth across Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail, and DashMart. You will move daily metrics, run A/B tests, launch new initiatives, and collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, finance, and other stakeholders.

You’ll be an individual contributor. We operate in a hybrid environment and spend a few days a month in person together. You must currently be based in New York or San Francisco. This role does not offer relocation and is not open to fully remote employees. We will be conducting batch interviews, so please submit your application by Friday 8/7. We aim to fill the role by early September with a start date no later than 9/28.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Operate: stand up 0→1 pilots, build dashboards, manage week-over-week KPIs, and turn wins into scalable processes.
• Launch: launch net-new merchants, experiment with new initiatives, and run in-market tests.
• Analyze: build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate expansion opportunities and prioritize next bets.
• Build: translate consumer, merchant, and dasher needs into product requirements, operational improvements, and tangible outcomes.
• Collaborate and Influence: partner with and lead cross-functional teams across product, engineering, finance, marketing, and other stakeholders on strategy & operations.

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 1–2+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in analytical, cross-functional cultures (banking or consulting preferred).
• You’re unafraid of ambiguity. You thrive in fast-changing, startup environments and can make impact quickly while working on project-based efforts.
• You’re analytical. You use data to drive decisions and are comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in Excel.
• You’re adaptable. You continuously explore new tools and ways to improve efficiency, and you know where, when, and how to use AI.
• You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a relevant field.
• You’re ready for a hybrid work environment. You must be able to start full-time by September 28, 2026, and currently be based in New York or San Francisco. Applications from outside these locations are not accepted, and relocation is not offered.

Compensation

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.

• National base pay range: $74,800–$110,000 USD

DoorDash also offers a comprehensive benefits package to regular employees, including a 401(k) 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/vision coverage, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program.

Paid time off details (summary):

• Salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• Hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked, and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.

About DoorDash

DoorDash’s mission is to empower local economies by helping people get the goods they need quickly and reliably. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started with door-to-door delivery and is expanding to serve any kind of goods. The company supports employees’ well-being through comprehensive benefits and perks, including healthcare, wellness reimbursements, paid parental leave, and more.