Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, New Verticals - DashMart

About the role

The Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, DashMart will oversee the financial aspects of the DashMart business, a new vertical aimed at offering groceries and household essentials through DoorDash's platform. This role requires a strategic thinker who can collaborate with product and operations teams to drive growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Work with GMs and product leaders to size opportunities and make strategic decisions and investments
• Oversee financial reporting and forecasting, ensuring a clear understanding of growth drivers, margin expansion, and competitive positioning
• Hold cross-functional partners accountable to their financial plan and outcomes, and work with them to get things back on track if they miss
• Mentor and develop new & existing talent to help them achieve their professional goals and scale the team
• Advise the executive team on ways to invest resources more efficiently, move faster, and do more
• Build models and develop analytical frameworks to evaluate new partnership opportunities, understand ROI/return on investment of various initiatives, and forecast demand more accurately
• Ensure necessary processes, systems, and tools are in place to streamline operations and help scale the business

Requirements

• 9+ years of strategic finance, operational finance, FP&A, or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
• 3+ years of team management experience, with a passion for building and developing teams
• Experience owning budgets for major functional areas within an organization, and working with operators on day-to-day execution to hit targets
• Highly motivated leader with a proven ability to exert influence on the direction of the company
• Deep expertise in distributed databases, particularly Apache Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, and database agnostic abstractions
• Strong command of distributed system concepts such as replication, partitioning, tunable consistency, and failure recovery
• Experience with caching technologies like Redis or Memcached and knowledge of workload-aware design patterns
• Customer-centric approach with a track record of mentoring engineers and fostering best practices in reliability, observability, and data access patterns

Qualifications

• Proven ability to earn the trust of senior leaders and influence their thinking on key strategic decisions
• Experience building and reviewing highly complex models and developing a team that sets the gold standard for financial modeling
• Able to lead by example and indirectly influence, navigate a rapidly growing organization with many different cross-functional partners, gain input, and build consensus with key stakeholders
• Relentless determination and grit to keep working on problems even when plans change, maintaining flexibility to adjust plans or strategies as needed

Skills

• Strategic thinking and financial acumen
• Collaboration and cross-functional partnership
• Data analysis and modeling
• Technical expertise in distributed databases and caching technologies
• Leadership and mentorship skills

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a dynamic work environment.

Pay

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.

Schedule

This role is a full-time position with a flexible remote/hybrid schedule.