Associate Manager, Product Operations

About the role

Come help us redefine last-mile logistics through robotics, automation, and other advanced technologies. Autonomy only works when merchants — restaurants, retailers, and other partners — can reliably interact with our robots: handing off orders, troubleshooting edge cases, and trusting the experience enough to keep using it. This role owns that side of the equation. We're looking for a Merchant Success & Growth lead to build the strategy and operational mechanisms that get merchants onboard, keep them performing, and turn their day-to-day reality into a tight feedback loop for product and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own merchant adoption and performance KPIs for autonomy end-to-end — defining what "successful merchant interaction with a robot" means, instrumenting it, and driving improvement against it.
• Build the playbooks and operational mechanisms to onboard merchants to autonomy — from first conversation through training, go-live, and steady-state ops — and scale them across markets.
• Partner with sales, account management, and field ops to recruit and ramp the right merchant cohorts for each stage of the product, and design experiments that test new merchant-facing features and handoff models.
• Define merchant performance benchmarks (handoff success rate, dwell time, dasher/robot interaction quality, merchant CSAT) and run the cadence that holds partners and internal teams accountable to them.
• Stand up the feedback loop from the field back to product and engineering — turning merchant complaints, edge cases, and frontline observations into prioritized inputs that change what we build next.
• Be the voice of the merchant inside Labs: advocating for their constraints in product reviews, roadmap planning, and launch decisions.

Requirements

• You have a Bachelor's degree in business, operations, or a related field, or equivalent related experience.
• You have 3–6 years of experience in Strategy & Operations, Merchant/Partner Success, Product Operations, Business Strategy, or a closely related field — ideally with time spent owning a partner-facing KPI end-to-end.
• You've built operational mechanisms from scratch — onboarding flows, performance reviews, escalation paths, feedback loops — not just run mechanisms someone else designed.
• You're comfortable in the field. You'll spend time with merchants and on-the-ground ops teams, and you treat that as a feature, not a bug.
• You think in metrics. You can define a KPI, instrument it, and tell the difference between a real signal and noise.
• You communicate clearly across audiences — translating frontline merchant pain into crisp product asks, and translating product/engineering tradeoffs back into language merchants and field teams understand.
• You're biased toward action in ambiguous, early-stage environments. You're energized by problems that don't yet have an owner or a process.

Bonus: experience launching new technology, hardware, or operationally complex products with external partners.

Pay

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado: $85,400—$125,500 USD. In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness benefits and commuter benefits match.
• Paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g., Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act).
• 11 paid holidays.
• Disability and basic life insurance.
• Family-forming assistance and a 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; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).