Associate Manager, New Verticals - Retail Merchandising Strategy & Operations

About the role

The New Verticals team is building the future of local commerce by expanding product offerings on the DoorDash marketplace platform. Launched in 2020, the team has built world-class operations to delight customers with access to Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail delivery, and is now shaping the future of DoorDash Retail across industries like pets, flowers, home improvement, and more. As an Associate Manager on the Retail Strategy & Operations team with a focus on merchandising across retail verticals, you will build the retail shopping experience by understanding customer shopping behavior, developing merchandising strategies for store pages, and building visibility across retail verticals in-app. You will iteratively test and learn to continuously optimize the site experience, work cross-functionally to translate business priorities into in-app merchandising or product strategies, report to a Manager on the Retail Strategy & Operations team, and manage a team of one.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute merchandising strategies across all retail categories including apparel, home, beauty, occasions, electronics, sporting goods and office
• Create a "best-in-class" shopping experience for customers by analyzing sales data, search trends and seasonal priorities
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify merchandising tools and ideate on product roadmap strategy
• Merchandise and maintain product assortment by monitoring business trends, customer demand, historical trends and seasonal variations to determine future growth opportunities
• Understand the consumer by anticipating their demands, analyzing their behavior and determining what they might come to the DoorDash platform for next

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of experience in retail, e-commerce or site merchandising
• Analytical and comfortable working with large data sets within Excel, Google Sheets, basic SQL
• AI native with experience leveraging LLMs and AI tools like Claude, Cursor and Gemini to automate merchandising workflows, accelerate test-and-learn cycles, and deliver measurable impact
• Completed Bachelor's Degree

Pay

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado, is $105,400—$155,000 USD. 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.

Benefits

DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, including:

• 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

Paid time off details:

• For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
• For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week