Associate Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations - Restaurant Success
DoorDashAbout the role
About the Team
The Restaurant Success Strategy & Operations team oversees restaurant satisfaction at DoorDash; our vision is to make DoorDash the most trusted delivery partner for your local deli, or your favorite enterprise restaurant. Together, we help restaurants drive profitable growth and operate seamlessly on our platform. We collect data and act on feedback; we work cross-functionally to prioritize their largest pain points and drive solutions with a restaurant-first lens. In this role, you will partner with our Support, Sales, and Product teams to ensure restaurants can operate seamlessly on DoorDash.
About the Role
You will report into our Restaurant Success team, within our Merchant Strategy & Operations organization, while working closely with cross-functional teams. Your key focus area will be the Support and Order Experience - improving the experience by testing and scaling ops solutions, defining product strategy, leading go-to-markets, and troubleshooting day-to-day issues. You will be responsible for identifying and prioritizing restaurant needs - including account pain points, empowering restaurants to self-serve issues, and managing orders seamlessly. You will create and execute go-to-market strategies, test your hypotheses through hacky experiments, and influence cross-functional teams. You will ensure that restaurants can successfully manage and grow their business independently on the DoorDash platform.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Own the success of restaurant satisfaction by enabling restaurants to manage and grow their business through our portal, tablet, and mobile app platforms
- Shape and define our platform and ops strategy based on quantitative and qualitative data
- Partner with product and engineering to drive changes to the platform, owning go-to-market for product launches
- Serve as the voice of the restaurant in internal forums, representing the merchant needs across teams and gathering insights across account management teams and surveys
We’re excited about you because…
- You want to affect change every day and can operate in energizing environments
- You enjoy solving problems and can translate high-level goals into executional plans
- You have an ability to build cross-functional partnerships at all levels across technical and non-technical teams to achieve common goals
- You are excited to shape the direction of the company
- You have completed your Bachelor's degree and have 3+ years work experience in consulting, bizops, strategy, operations, technology, startups, or related experiences
- You have advanced Analytical skills (SQL a plus)
- You communicate clearly and concisely in written and verbal comms
- You have led projects across teams and demonstrated success in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
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 hid
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