Associate, Dasher & Logistics - Product Operations Strategy & Operations

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · New York, NY · 618 Logistics

This role focuses on product operations strategy and operations within DoorDash's logistics platform. The Associate will analyze, track, and improve delivery quality, partner with cross-functional teams to identify trends, support network cost strategies, and execute quality improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include owning quality improvement workstreams, managing network transitions, running experiments, supporting scalable solutions, driving analytical rigor with models, and building cross-functional relationships. The ideal candidate is strategic, process-oriented, analytical, thrives in scaling environments, is cross-functional, has deep logistics experience, and delivers results.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own quality improvement workstreams: that address the most unique and challenging questions within the warehouse network team on how to improve quality.
  2. Own network transitions: that redesign and redefine the transportation network through carrier, quality, and cost strategies
  3. Run experiments and operations tests: assist in structuring and executing operational tests to identify solutions for reducing defects like mis-sorts or delivery delay times.
  4. Support execution at scale: after proving out a concept, translating the wins into scalable solutions that we can apply across the entire network.
  5. Drive analytical rigor: by building and owning models that track new product launch success, key quality metrics, weekly and annual costs, and support the development of internal reporting tools to measure and monitor network performance.
  6. Build strong cross-functional relationships: by regularly partnering with Logistics, LiveOps, Analytics, Engineering, and Product teams to build quarterly roadmaps, scope and assess initiatives that can improve the efficiency, quality, and cost of the logistics system.

Skills

Required

  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Sigma
  • network modeling tools
  • 2+ years in transportation, supply chain strategy, consulting, or operations roles
  • carrier selection
  • SLA design
  • network optimization

Nice to have

  • strategic
  • process-oriented
  • analytical
  • scaling environments
  • cross-functional
  • deliver results

What the JD emphasized

  • deep logistics experience
  • quality improvement
  • network optimization
  • analytical rigor
  • scaling environments