Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy, New Verticals - DashMart

About the role

The Senior Manager, Finance & Strategy will oversee the finance and strategy for DashMart, DoorDash's new vertical focused on groceries and household essentials. This role will involve working with GMs and product leaders to size opportunities, manage financial reporting and forecasting, hold cross-functional partners accountable, mentor and develop new talent, advise the executive team, and build models to evaluate new partnership opportunities.

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
• 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, with a track record of mentoring engineers and fostering best practices in reliability, observability, and data access patterns
• Bonus: Experience with open-source distributed databases

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
• Comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot, leading solutioning engagements from design through production
• Experience with logistics, on-demand services, marketplaces, and grocery industry (nice to have)

Benefits

Not specified

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. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location.

Schedule

Hybrid