Associate Manager, - Strategy & Operations

Associate Manager, Strategy & OperationsAustin, TX; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; United States - RemoteAbout the TeamDoorDash Digital Ordering is DoorDash's leading SaaS business unit, offering a suite of products across online ordering, branded websites and mobile apps, loyalty solutions, and more that enable restaurants to reach customers and grow their revenue through their own first-party channels.The business is one of the fastest-growing segments within DoorDash, and yet is only scratching the surface of a generational opportunity to better serve hundreds of thousands of merchants across the Americas to help them grow their business and improve working lives in one of the country's biggest industry sectors.Strategy & Operations sits at the center of that opportunity. The team partners with Product to set the strategy and vision for every offering in the suite, across our SMB and enterprise merchants. We decide what to build, where to invest, and how to bring it to market, and we learn by putting products in front of merchants and running the experiments that show us what moves their business.As part of this team, the Associate Manager will take end-to-end ownership of a set of products and lead the cross-functional effort to grow them. Your work will be instrumental to helping transition DoorDash from a consumer marketplace to an industry-leading B2B SaaS company.About the RoleAs an Associate Manager on the Digital Ordering Strategy & Operations team, you will own a set of products within our first-party suite from end to end. You will set the strategy and priorities for those products in partnership with Product, be accountable for their growth, and lead the Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, and Marketing partners who bring them to market. This role is ideal for a strategic operator who can move fast and wear many hats, equal parts analyst, builder, operator, and cross-functional leader.You will own zero-to-one experiments alongside products already operating at scale, help shape the roadmap with Product, and work directly with merchants and frontline teams to identify the gaps worth solving. Scope on this team grows with demonstrated ownership, and the people who do well here identify problems independently and come back with a plan to solve them.Scope for this role can vary between Foundation Products: the products that are table stakes for every restaurant we serve and that drive the core of our revenue today, and Growth & Insights: the next generation of products and the experimentation engine behind them.We're especially excited about candidates who've worked in fast-moving, founder-led, or resource-constrained environments, those who see lack of structure as an opportunity to build.ResponsibilitiesYour responsibilities will include:Own the product line: Take end-to-end ownership of your products. Set the strategy, define the goals and KPIs that measure success, and prioritize where to invest. You will build the business case, the financial model, and the operating plan, then carry them through launch and into growth.Lead cross-functionally: Bring Product, Engineering, Analytics, Implementation, Sales, Marketing, and Support behind a plan and hold partners accountable to it without formal authority. You will be the connective tissue that keeps a launch on schedule and the feedback loop that informs what gets built next.Analyze: Pair complex data analysis with qualitative insight from merchants and frontline teams to guide strategic decisions. You will build your own models and translate what you find into action that improves both the merchant experience and internal execution.Experiment: Design and launch zero-to-one tests, pilot AI-powered tools, build demos or prototype agents, and configure internal tooling that improves speed, accuracy, or effectiveness. You will move quickly to retire what does not work and scale what does.Represent the merchant: Act as the voice of the merchant and the field, leading discovery interviews and synthesizing feedback from Sales, Implementation, Support, and merchants themselves to help influence product roadmaps and go-to-market priorities. You will ensure our products resonate with restaurants and scale with repeatable excellence.Scale learnings: Codify what works. Build the repeatable frameworks, processes, and enablement that raise the bar across the org, and define best practices for launching new products in a way that's scalable and measurable.The best candidates will:Think like a founder, identifying the problems nobody flagged, building the case for solving them, and driving them to resolution with limited structure or directionBring strong analytical horsepower and intellectual curiosity, comfortable diving into complex data and extracting insights that drive real-world decisionsThrive in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments, moving with urgency, defaulting to action, taking ownership end to end, and knowing when to bend process to get things doneLead cross-functional teams through influence, building trust with Product, Engineering, Sales, Account Management, and Marketing partners and holding them to their commitmentsCarry executive presence, comfortable presenting to senior leaders, defending a recommendation with data, and adapting the message to the audienceHave experience working closely with Sales or frontline teams, and know how to turn insights from those teams into actionDemonstrate comfort with AI, automation, or internal tooling to drive process efficiency, enable scale, or prototype solutionsYou're excited about this opportunity because you will…Own products from end to end and be accountable for their growthImagine, develop, and execute on workstreams from start to completion with little oversightOscillate easily from strategic considerations to tactical executionBuild deep and meaningful relationships with merchants, laser focused on helping them thriveHave the opportunity to truly make a scalable, measurable impact on the restaurant industry in the US and abroadOperate comfortably in ambiguous environments while maintaining a strong bias for actionGrow your scope as you demonstrate ownership and impactCommunicate precisely dependent on audience and level of detail necessary to shareRepresent the DoorDash brand with humility and a customer-first mindsetWe're excited about you because you…4-7 years of experience in strategy, operations, consulting, product, or founder-type rolesHave taken a product or concept from inception through launch and into growth, leading cross-functional partners without a fully defined briefDemonstrate the judgment to set a product's direction and prioritize the gaps that matter most to the businessCan devise and execute a strategy to achieve business outcomesBring a strong analytical background, with the ability to synthesize large data sets into meaningful insights (proficiency in SQL preferred)Lead cross-functionally and influence without authority across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and MarketingDevelop goals and OKRs to measure success, and hold yourself accountable for the outcomeCarry executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging across audiences (e.g., sales reps, execs, and merchants)Pilot or build with AI tools in real-world workflowsBring a founder mindset, identifying problems independently and driving them to resolutionBachelor's degree required.Bonus if you have experience with:Founding or operating your own company or product, or an early employee role at a startupBuilding and executing go-to-market motionsWorking in a high-growth environmentClient or account managementBuilding financial or sales forecasting modelsRestaurant, SaaS, or marketplace businessesBoth zero-to-one work in a lean environment and scaling products at a larger organizationAre the first in your family to attend collegeWhy You'll Love Working at DoorDashWe are leaders: Leadership is not limited to our management team. It's something everyone at DoorDash embraces and embodiesWe are operators: We believe the only way to predict the future is to build it. Creating solutions to lead our company and our industry is what we do on every project, every dayWe are learners: Everyone here is continually learning on the job, no matter if we've been in a role for one year or one minute. We are committed to learning