District Manager (chicago)

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · Chicago, IL · 113 Order Fulfillment Management

This role is for a District Manager at DoorDash's DashMart facilities. The primary focus is on leading and overseeing the day-to-day operations of multiple DashMart locations, ensuring efficiency, safety, and profitability. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, and managing a team, executing process improvement pilots, driving operational efficiencies, and contributing to market expansion and scaling efforts. The role requires strong leadership, problem-solving skills, analytical capabilities, and experience in operations or retail management.

What you'd actually do

  1. recruit, lead, coach & retain a high-performing team of Site Managers (6+ direct reports), Assistant Site Managers, Shift Leads, and Operations Associates (50+ indirect reports). As a leader, you are a culture carrier. The tone starts with you.
  2. From first principles, you will spend most of your time physically onsite managing and overseeing the day-to-day operations of a high volume portfolio (approx 6-10 DashMart locations), ensuring all site processes run smoothly, efficiently and safely. Responsible for market metric performance (quality, storefront reliability, efficiency, and profitability) by identifying opportunities, and implementing growth plans to achieve goals.
  3. by executing process improvement pilots & projects with cross-functional stakeholders to drive operational efficiencies while maintaining positive employee experience. Contribute to market expansion and scaling efforts by ensuring that sites execute against increased demand, operational best practices, and driving results against operational key metrics.
  4. Own site-level culture and change management by leading adoption of operational best practices, activating team engagement, and channeling frontline insights to influence cross-functional decisions.
  5. Work cross-functionally with central teams to ensure your site offers customers the best experience on each and every order and provide your team with the tools, resources and support needed to achieve these goals.

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Operations Management
  • Team Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Data Analysis
  • Problem Solving
  • Change Management
  • Customer Experience

Nice to have

  • Startup Experience
  • Logistics Experience
  • Fulfillment Center/Warehousing Experience
  • Multi-Unit Management
  • Team Building

What the JD emphasized

  • high volume portfolio
  • market metric performance
  • operational efficiencies
  • market expansion
  • scaling efforts
  • operational best practices
  • operational key metrics
  • site-level culture
  • change management
  • frontline insights
  • cross-functional decisions
  • customer experience
  • flexible schedule
  • data-first problem solver
  • ambiguous, startup environments
  • data analysis skills
  • led & managed teams of 15+ employees
  • multi-locations
  • operational experience in logistics
  • Fulfillment Center/Warehousing
  • managing high volume operations
  • multi-unit management experience
  • built and trained high performing teams