Associate Manager, Dashmart - Site Strategy & Planning

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · 633 DashMart Strategy & Operations

Associate Manager for DashMart Site Strategy & Planning at DoorDash, focusing on optimizing physical warehouse layouts, storage capacity, and inventory placement. This role involves analyzing data, building forecasts, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve operational efficiency and support business growth. It is a non-technical role within the Strategy & Operations job family.

What you'd actually do

  1. Analyze data, build long-range forecasts, and recommend optimal capacity decisions and site investments to achieve business outcomes
  2. Work cross-functionally with operations, category management, supply chain, real estate, and construction teams to make them a reality
  3. Develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers
  4. Transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes, informing your larger initiative implementation plans
  5. Assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate based on data

Skills

Required

  • Data analysis
  • Forecasting
  • Strategic planning
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Problem-solving
  • SQL
  • Excel modeling
  • Physical retail or warehousing experience

Nice to have

  • Grocery warehousing experience
  • Online micro-fulfillment center experience
  • Industrial Engineering background
  • Supply Chain background
  • Quantitative field background

What the JD emphasized

  • non-technical role
  • solve problems from first principles
  • resists 'this is how it’s always been done' thinking
  • comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot
  • unafraid of ambiguity
  • analytical
  • let data win arguments
  • comfortable pulling your own data in SQL or modeling in Excel
  • 4-6+ years of professional experience
  • 2+ years of experience with physical retail or warehousing environments