Senior Associate, New Verticals - Product Partnerships & Business Development

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · New York, NY · 531 Enterprise Outside Sales

This role focuses on business development and product partnerships within DoorDash's marketplace and commerce platform. The Senior Associate will lead strategic initiatives, identify growth opportunities with integration partners, develop go-to-market strategies, and influence internal teams to drive partner-led growth. The role requires strong analytical, strategic thinking, and influencing skills, with experience in bringing new products to market and scaling business processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and grow a portfolio of middleware, integration, and channel partners, identifying opportunities to deepen engagement and accelerate mutual growth.
  2. Develop scalable go-to-market strategies for new products and initiatives, working closely with cross-functional teams.
  3. Lead strategic initiatives that impact how DoorDash works with partners—from pricing structures to marketing campaigns to partner onboarding.
  4. Conduct performance reviews with partners and internal stakeholders, using available data and business insights to drive actionable recommendations.
  5. Champion operational improvements that increase efficiency and enhance the partner experience.

Skills

Required

  • building and running SQL queries
  • analytical skills
  • structured approach to ambiguous data sets
  • strategic thinking
  • creative problem solving
  • experience in bringing new products to market
  • scaling business processes
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • influencing others
  • extreme ownership
  • bias towards action
  • thrive in a fast environment
  • oscillate easily from strategic considerations to tactical execution
  • communication and reporting skills
  • summarize complex issues
  • provide high-level business commentary to leadership
  • Bachelor's degree

Nice to have

  • strategy
  • operations
  • financial services
  • investment banking
  • consulting
  • technology
  • business analyst

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic decisions
  • scalable solutions
  • strategic relationships
  • strategic initiatives
  • strategic considerations