District Manager (st. Louis, Mo)

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · MO · 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 smooth, efficient, and safe processes. Responsibilities include recruiting, leading, and coaching a team, driving operational efficiencies through process improvement, managing market metric performance, and contributing to market expansion and scaling efforts. The role requires strong leadership, problem-solving skills, analytical abilities, and experience in operations or retail management.

What you'd actually do

  1. recruit, lead, coach & retain a high-performing team of Site Managers (4+ direct reports), Assistant Site Managers, Shift Leads, and Operations Associates (30+ 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 4-6 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

  • Operations management
  • Retail management
  • Strategy
  • Leadership of teams (15+ employees)
  • Multi-location management
  • Data analysis
  • Excel

Nice to have

  • Startup scaling
  • Logistics experience
  • Fulfillment Center/Warehousing experience
  • High volume operations management
  • Multi-unit management
  • Team building and training

What the JD emphasized

  • lead
  • Own
  • Strategize
  • Change Management
  • Delight customers
  • act like an owner
  • solve problems from first principles
  • unafraid of ambiguity
  • analytical
  • relentless
  • proven leader
  • 3+ years’ experience
  • reasonably commutable distance