About the Team

The Finance & Strategy team accelerates the growth of our business by implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability, and defensibility of our business model. We're looking for people who can model the future, and collaborate to help carry projects from conception through execution.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Sr. Associate to join our high-performing Consumer Finance team, with a dedicated focus on promotions and retention marketing. In this role, you'll partner closely with teams across DoorDash—including Marketing, Strategy & Operations, and Product—to ensure we’re investing in the right promotional levers to drive customer engagement, retention, and long-term value.

You’ll build and manage models that help us track, forecast, and optimize promotional spend, with a strong emphasis on incrementality, efficiency, and customer behavior trends. This is a high-impact role that will enable you to shape the strategy behind our retention efforts by identifying key investment opportunities and quantifying their potential impact.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical and communication skills, a deep interest for understanding customer behavior, and the ability to turn data into actionable insights. You’ll play a critical role in influencing data-driven decisions, becoming a trusted partner to cross-functional teams, and driving performance through smart, efficient promotions.

You're excited about this opportunity because you will…

Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Strategy & Operations, Product, and Analytics teams to improve customer retention and optimize marketing efficiency.
Drive strategic decision-making in a fast-paced, evolving environment by leveraging data to enhance visibility into customer performance and surface new business opportunities.
Identify and size key risks and opportunities across the business, providing actionable insights to inform investment decisions.
Collaborate with Accounting and Corporate Finance to analyze and explain month-end variances, supporting accurate and timely financial close reporting.
Lead and support high-impact initiatives aimed at improving, automating, and scaling forecasting, reporting tools, and operational processes.

We're excited about you because…

3-5 years of strategic finance, corporate finance, or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
Experience working on projects that require cross-functional collaboration and ability to influence partners at all levels within an organization
Advanced Excel & financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Basic SQL proficiency (or willingness to learn). Able to manipulate large data sets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and meaningfully improve our understanding of our business through this process

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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.

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan 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 (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$104,700—$154,000 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.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

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

Senior Associate

Finance & Strategy, Consumer Finance

DoorDash

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