Associate Manager, New Verticals
About this role
About the Team
DoorDash is building the future of local commerce through New Verticals, including grocery, convenience, retail, and other emerging categories. Our International New Verticals team supports the growth and development of these businesses across Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (“CANZ”).
Our team partners across Operations, Product, and Finance to develop strategies that support sustainable growth across Canada.
About the Role
We are hiring a data-driven and entrepreneurial Associate Manager, International New Verticals Strategy & Operations to lead strategy, experimentation, and go-to-market execution for fulfillment cost and profitability initiatives.
Your primary focus will be initiatives that improve costs and variable profit and the long-term economics of our New Verticals businesses. This may include dasher and operational efficiency, pricing accuracy, and other product or platform investments.
You will own initiatives across the full product lifecycle: defining the problem, sizing the opportunity, developing and executing solutions, and measuring results after rollout.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
Develop strategy. Use insights, market context, data analysis, and financial modeling to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve the unit economics of our international New Verticals businesses.Lead experimentation. Design and execute pilots and experiments, partnering with Analytics, Product, Engineering, Finance and Accounting to develop robust cost / profitability problem statements, define success criteria, and translate findings into product and operations recommendations.Own end-to-end execution. Lead initiatives from initial planning through rollout, including defining the target audience, positioning, market readiness, operating changes, communications, training, dependencies, and launch timelinesAnalyze performance and influence decisions. Build SQL-based reporting and analytical frameworks to evaluate opportunities, measure performance, and inform investment and prioritization decisions.
- Lead, collaborate and Influence. Partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product, analytics and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.
We’re excited about you because…
- You have 4+ years of experience in product operations, product strategy, business operations, strategy and operations, consulting, or a related field.
- You have led complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced or high-growth environment.
- You can structure ambiguous problems, identify the most important questions, and translate them into clear plans, decisions, and deliverables.
- You are comfortable influencing Product, Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
- You have experience designing experiments, evaluating results, and using insights to make strategic recommendations.
- You are analytically strong and comfortable working with large datasets, building financial models, and using SQL to answer business questions.
- You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can distill complex product and technical concepts for different audiences.
- You are operationally rigorous and able to manage launch timelines, dependencies, risks, and market readiness across multiple workstreams.
- You hold a bachelor’s degree.
Compensation
Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location.
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 paid time off, paid parental leave, wellness benefit and several paid holidays.
Additionally, for full-time employees, DoorDash offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance, an RRSP including an employer 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 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.
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.
Company at a glance
DoorDash is a technology company building the next generation of local delivery. It operates a full-stack delivery service by partnering with merchants, hiring its own drivers, and building its own logistics software, with a mission to empower local economies and enable real-time logistics for goods and services. Having started with door-to-door delivery, it positions itself as the go-to company for any and all goods. Headquartered in San Francisco, DoorDash has raised funding from prominent investors including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, and Y Combinator, and is looking to expand its founding team to advance its mission to be the world's first real-time logistics company.
Top Benefits
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness benefit
- Paid holidays
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Basic life insurance
- RRSP employer match
- Mental health program
- Equity grants
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