Senior Associate, New Verticals - Drive Strategy & Operations

<div class="content-intro"><p><img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://click.appcast.io/greenhouse-te8/a31.png?ent=34e=22630t=1701374353806" width="1px"> <img style="display: none; max-width: 100%;" src="https://track.jobadx.com/v1/i.gif?utm_pixel=224e990b-8ff4-4287-8d5d-2ff09647f181utm_ptz=ESTutm_rqt=track" alt="" width="1"></p></div><h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>DoorDash Drive is our white label fulfillment platform powering e-commerce for merchants on and off the DoorDash platform. The Drive New Verticals team partners with merchants across Grocery, Convenience, Retail, and Pharma to strategically and operationally address their e-commerce and logistics needs through our three-sided marketplace.</p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our New Verticals Drive Strategy Operations team passionate about scaling high growth products. This team focuses on owning the merchant strategy for our Drive partners that operate on our Dasher Shop Deliver platform. In this role, you will unlock accessibility to local businesses on their own terms by launching new products and services to expand both DoorDash’s and the Merchant’s total addressable market. You will work on growth, profitability and merchant strategy initiatives to grow our Grocery merchants.. You will partner cross-functionally to drive operational excellence, contribute to the ideation and execution of new services and features, and support profitability efforts through data-driven recommendations, merchant negotiations, and account optimization initiatives. Reporting to the Manager of Drive Strategy and Operations, you will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, sales, operations, business development, and other teams to make your vision a reality. We operate in a hybrid model so we spend a few days a quarter in person together, but all our offices are open should you choose to go in more regularly!</p> <h2><strong>You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Strategize: </strong>You will develop the strategy to best serve our customers, thinking at a deeply strategic level about the success now and 3+ years out. </li> <li><strong>Operate</strong>: You want to get to the lowest level of detail, and scale. You will work directly with internal and external partners to execute on your short long-term plans; you are a cross functional success enabler and an excellent operator. </li> <li><strong>Analyze. </strong>You will analyze data to root cause problems, build solutions and ideate net new initiatives.</li> <li><strong>Build:</strong> You will develop and lead 0 to 1 opportunities, creating the roadmap for future growth vectors and determine how to invest our resources to achieve desired outcomes. 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.</li> <li><strong>Collaborate: </strong>You value partnerships, and will excel at working across Operations, Product, Sales, Engineering, and more to bring new products and services to merchants.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>We’re excited about you because…</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>You have an extreme sense of ownership. </strong>You display extreme ownership for the products and business lines that you are responsible for. You never shy away from raising your hand to solve ambiguous problems and are able to motivate and empower your teammates to go above and beyond.</li> <li><strong>You solve problems from first principles.</strong> You’re excited to solve problems in innovative ways, and you resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking.</li> <li><strong>You’re an analytical powerhouse.</strong> You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and modeling in Excel. You’ve adapted to AI tooling and are comfortable using these t ... (truncated, view full listing at source)