Associate, New Verticals - Alcohol Strategy & Operations

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · 632 New Business Verticals

This role focuses on the strategy and operations for DoorDash's alcohol business, including retail partnerships, customer selection, and compliance. It involves end-to-end strategy for specific markets, covering pre-sales (market expansion, commercial terms) and post-sales (operational processes, customer experience, marketplace optimization). The role requires analytical skills, building models in Excel and SQL, and influencing cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define market expansion strategy: which markets to enter and when
  2. Build and scale operational processes to support growth in complex markets
  3. Improve customer experience (e.g., enhanced order tracking, clearer fulfillment expectations)
  4. Optimize marketplace dynamics (e.g., minimum order values, selection quality)
  5. Build models using tools like Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments

Skills

Required

  • 1-3+ years' experience in consulting, strategy, tech or related experience
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Excel
  • SQL

Nice to have

  • high-growth or early-stage start-up experience
  • compliance experience

What the JD emphasized

  • compliance
  • regulated