Senior Associate

About the Team

Our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team is responsible for building, scaling and improving the way in which we provide Restaurant delivery. We build our restaurant selection, test 0 → 1 products to give merchants more opportunity to delight their consumers, and optimize ways to improve our marketplace to increase the return on investment our partners gain from partnering with DoorDash. This team focuses on all things Restaurants ranging from selection, to merchandising, to consumer strategy, to leveraging our logistics network in new ways, to so much more! 

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team, with a focus on expanding our Logistics & Supply Chain offerings. This team is dedicated to creating new services that simplify operations and reduce costs for our restaurant partners. In this role, you will be focused on providing our partners with critical business inputs—such as food inventory, packaging, and supplies—faster and more affordably than they currently receive them.

The ideal candidate will possess a growth mindset, strong analytical skills, and a deep sense of ownership. If you're excited about launching 0 to 1 projects, solving customer challenges, working in fast-paced environments, and managing a marketplace business line with broad impact, this role is for you.

We operate in a hybrid model, balancing in-person collaboration with remote work. While this is an individual contributor position, there will be immediate opportunities to take on people management responsibilities. You will report directly to a Director within our Strategy & Operations team.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Have Ownership. You’ll  visible goals that will drive both top-line and bottom-line performance of our core marketplace business
• You will collaborate. You’ll work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment by working with teams like Product, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and more!
• Strategize. Bring new products & strategies to market, integrating net new value propositions into our restaurant ecosystem.
• Operate. You will become an expert on how to run a sustainable marketplace business, and what it takes to create value for Merchants, Dashers and Consumers..

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 2-4+ years of experience in a problem solving role - Consulting, Tech, Banking, Food & Beverage, etc. 
• You have a completed BA/BS degree in a quantitative field (engineering, mathematics, business, etc.)
• You display strong financial acumen. You know your way around complex financial or operational models. 
• You have a strong history of data analysis. You have experience with pulling your own data via SQL and/or open to learning
• You are a collaborator. You have experience with stakeholder management across diverse audiences, from front-line doers to senior executives. 

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