Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy

Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations, Merchant AppsAbout the Team Today, DoorDash empowers over 500,000 local businesses ("merchants") by connecting them to customers. On the Merchant Team, we're building the easiest, most profitable way for merchants to grow. We aim to sign up every merchant, onboard them instantly, represent their brand and products fully, ensure every interaction with DoorDash is seamless, and drive them consistent profitable growth.About the Role We're looking for a Senior Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations, Merchant Apps to shape the vision and execution of DoorDash's core merchant tools, including the Merchant Portal and Business Manager App. In this role, you'll help merchants operate seamlessly on our platform by ensuring our products are easily accessible, discoverable, and useful to their DoorDash experience. You'll match deep customer empathy with analytical rigor to uncover insights, reduce friction, and design strategies that make our apps and surfaces intuitive and essential. Success in this role requires strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to drive impact across product, engineering, sales, and operations.You're Excited About This Opportunity Because You WillDevelop and build the critical tools that our merchants need to run their businessesHave game-changing impact on our merchants' operations and experience with DoorDashStrategize From first principles, you'll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customersExperiment. You'll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes, informing the broader product and experience roadmapAnalyze. You'll assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate based on dataLead and collaborate. You'll work with a cross-functional team, including marketing, design, product, engineering, analytics, sales, and operations to build this experienceWe're Excited About You Because You Have8+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, product management, product operations or relatedDirect people management experienceBias to action and agility you move quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment. No job is beneath you and you lead from the frontProven ability to create clarity and focus in complex and ambiguous problem spaces, and you can articulate that vision to cross-functional partnersAbility to solve analytical problems quickly, and are experienced in SQL and/or ExcelYou are an owner, meaning you take responsibility for outcomes, have experience being in the driver's seat, and want to shape the vision and direction of the companyExceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling narrativeswritten, verbal, and visualStrong business acumenassessing risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to support short-term needs and long-term goalsA bachelors' degreeCompensation The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee's work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future. 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 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.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 usersfrom 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.