Associate, Drive
About the Team
DoorDash Drive is our company's hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers and retailers across the United States, Canada and Australia. We are revolutionizing the delivery experience for merchants and customers by offering the next generation of fulfillment services. We’re looking for someone to join the Drive New Verticals team to rapidly scale our next big bet in logistics. This team works closely with multiple cross functional partners to incubate new service offerings and quickly launch new Merchants and revenue on our platform.
About the Role
You will drive the strategy for one of our newest business lines. You will quickly become an expert about our product, operations, and Merchants. You will be on the forefront of growth and expansion; building models, creating pricing strategy, and implementing processes to win deals, accelerate speed to revenue, and drive profitable volume to the platform. You will perform comprehensive analysis and make insightful recommendations about our business strategy with the ultimate goal of helping DoorDash disrupt a new industry.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Strategize – Understand the needs of our partners, prioritize those needs by impact, assess tradeoffs, and design solutions to drive both speed and quality outcomes
- Build – Bring structure to undefined opportunities by creating and implementing high-impact playbooks, models, processes, and tools that help us grow new business more quickly and effectively
- Analyze – Solve key problems with a data-driven, first-principles approach (identification, sizing, pricing, impact, root causing, trade offs)
- Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Business Development, Logistics, and Product teams to rapidly scale new business
We’re Excited About You Because
- Possess strong analytical skills, including proficiency with SQL and Microsoft Excel
- Have strong cross-functional skills and experience with projects spanning multiple teams
- Act with urgency and take ownership; you quickly jump on the most important issues and you are capable of driving multiple work streams simultaneously
- Are excited about challenging, ambiguous problems and understand when to go to the lowest level of detail to drive results
- Are curious about the business and how things work; you ask great questions and are not afraid to challenge the status-quo
- Have 1-3 years of relevant experience in high-growth environments
- Have a Bachelor’s Degree
Requirements
- Strong analytical skills, including proficiency with SQL and Microsoft Excel
- Strong cross-functional skills and experience with projects spanning multiple teams
- Act with urgency and take ownership; you quickly jump on the most important issues and you are capable of driving multiple work streams simultaneously
- Excited about challenging, ambiguous problems and understand when to go to the lowest level of detail to drive results
- Curious about the business and how things work; you ask great questions and are not afraid to challenge the status-quo
- 1-3 years of relevant experience in high-growth environments
- A Bachelor’s Degree
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including 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).
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
Pay
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.
Schedule
Flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
Location
The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are 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
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.
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