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Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Drive

DoorDash
New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Oct 2023
💰 $247,000/yr($155,500/yr$247,000/yr)

About the role

About the Team

DoorDash Drive is our company’s hypergrowth fulfillment platform serving restaurants, grocers, and retailers across the United States and abroad. DoorDash Drive allows restaurants, grocers, and retailers to enable ecommerce fulfillment for their first-party experiences.

As part of the Strategic Initiatives team, the Manager will have the opportunity to help define, test and scale Drive’s next biggest bets.

About the Role

As a Senior Manager for DoorDash Drive's Strategic Initiatives team, you will play a critical role in driving the growth and success of our delivery service. You will be responsible for identifying new growth opportunities, incubating them, proving market-fit and running the go-to-market . The ideal candidate for this role should be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset, able to take ownership and create plans from scratch, and drive execution while obtaining cross-functional buy-in to achieve DoorDash Drive's strategic goals

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

  • Lead high visibility, cross-functional projects that address Drive’s most unique and challenging questions
  • Grow a high-potential offering within a high-growth business 
  • Analyze complex data sets paired with partner team feedback to provide insights and recommendations to our leadership
  • Steer the scaling and optimization of operations and quality across Drive
  • Execute product testing and roll-outs on the ground with merchant partners
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across DoorDash to align company-wide resources to refine platform capabilities

We’re excited about you because…

  • You imagine, develop, and execute on workstreams from start to completion with little oversight 
  • You are resourceful and can engage other teams and resources to independently figure out answers to nebulous questions
  • You oscillate easily from strategic considerations to tactical execution 
  • Are a self-starter who is energized by a difficult problem 
  • Have a passion for building
  • You display extreme ownership across every workstream while ruthlessly prioritizing what will actually move the needle 
  • You maintain a careful balance between attention to detail and swift execution
  • You operate comfortably in ambiguous environments while maintaining a strong bias for action
  • You communicate precisely dependent on audience and level of detail necessary to share 
  • You collaborate effectively with cross-functional team members across the organization
  • You represents the DoorDash brand with humility and a customer-first mindset
  • Experience in a complex or high-growth environment required
  • 7+ years of relevant experience 

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 a

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