Our New Verticals team launched in 2020 with the purpose of delighting our customers and empowering local communities outside of just restaurants. Since then, we’ve launched Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, Retail, and DashMarts while also building merchant services, dasher tooling and consumer products. New Verticals is the growth engine of DoorDash’s business and we are continuing to build and scale new businesses everyday!
We are hiring an Associate to work on one of our newest businesses on the New Verticals Strategy & Operations team to help launch and scale a pharmacy delivery service. You will work on identifying expansion plans, ways to improve consumer quality, operational excellence, and sustainable growth by identifying & executing against strategic opportunities.
What you'd do
- Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving all sides of the marketplace - dashers, merchants and consumers.
- Operate. Own tracking dashboards and manage week over week metrics to drive high quality operations.
- Analyze. Build models using Excel and SQL to evaluate the economic, operational and strategic costs and benefits of various programs and experiments — and increasingly, use AI to accelerate and deepen that analysis.
- Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments, product features and net-new tooling that create measurable outcomes.
- You'll use AI tools to automate manual processes, build new prototypes and develop product visions.
- You'll be expected to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI in your day-to-day work, and share what you learn with the team.
- Lead, collaborate and Influence. You’ll partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.
What they want
- You have 1-3+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in similar cultures that are highly analytical and cross-functional (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).
- You are an owner. You're always looking for opportunities to better your work product and own the outcome – both the good and the bad
- You're entrepreneurial. You have a bias for action and are able to build things from the ground up.
- You’re analytical. You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL and building models in excel.
- You solve problems from first principles. You have a talent for synthesizing complex problems, can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and enjoy implementing a process
- You’re equally comfortable operating at 10,000 feet and 1 foot. You don’t hesitate to get in the weeds and operate at the lowest level of detail, but you’re just as comfortable thinking long-term and inspiring a team.
- You’re unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environment
- You're energized by AI tools — and you actively experiment with them.
- You don't wait to be told how to use a new tool; you’re already exploring tools like Claude, Cursor, Gemini and more.
- You bring a builder's mindset to AI: using it to automate the repetitive, accelerate the analytical, and unlock work that would otherwise require a larger team.
- You're comfortable with a role whose scope will continue to shift as AI becomes more capable, and you see that as an opportunity rather than a threat.
- You have a completed Bachelor’s Degree.
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.