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 finance leader 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 quickly

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
• Experience building and reviewing highly complex models and developing a team that sets the gold standard for financial modeling
• Able to operate at both a high-level and at the lowest level of detail, leading solutioning engagements from design through production
• 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 how to layer them effectively over storage systems to optimize for performance and cost
• Customer-centric approach, skilled at translating complex business requirements into resilient and scalable data models
• Track record of mentoring engineers, influencing data architecture at scale, 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
• Comfort operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot, able to think long-term and inspire a team
• Bonus: Experience with open-source distributed databases

Skills

• Strategic Finance
• Operational Finance
• Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
• Investment Banking
• Data Modeling
• Database Management
• System Architecture
• Performance Tuning
• Capacity Planning
• Cost Optimization
• Reliability and Observability
• Data Access Patterns

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development opportunities
• Health and wellness benefits
• Employee recognition programs

Pay

The starting pay for this role falls within the range of $180,000 to $220,000 annually, based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions.

Schedule

This role is a full-time position with a flexible work schedule.