Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations - Commerce Platform

DoorDash DoorDash · Consumer · New York, NY · 613 Platform Operations

DoorDash is seeking a Senior Associate, Strategy & Operations for their Commerce Platform team. This role will focus on driving growth and adoption of the platform by defining, testing, and scaling strategies, developing go-to-market plans, and improving the product based on merchant needs and feedback. The role involves business development, cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and other teams, and evaluating/testing revenue, cost, and quality drivers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and own the business – Drive growth and adoption of some of our top priority projects
  2. Business development – Develop and foster deep relationships with top priority merchant partners to iterate and grow the business. Key Merchant point of contact within the Strategy & Ops team
  3. Go-to-market strategy – Build a strong understanding of product market fit, value proposition, pricing, and the competitive landscape, and help the team develop a go-to-market strategy based on these inputs. Grow a high-potential offering within a high-growth business.
  4. Improve the product – Guide operational improvements for our merchant partners by understanding their needs and working with internal partners to design solutions throughout the product experience. Steer the Commerce Platform product roadmap informed by quantitative analysis and qualitative merchant feedback
  5. Influence – Work cross-functionally with our Product, Engineering, Finance, Analytics, Support, Sales and Account Management teams to drive growth and scale.
  6. Experiment – Evaluate and test various revenue, cost and quality drivers.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 3+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, or operations
  • Expert communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical thinker
  • Bias towards action
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly changing work environment
  • Excellent at motivating potential partners
  • Comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment

Nice to have

  • High-growth/early-stage startup or entrepreneurial experience is a big plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.