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About this role
About the Team
The Logistics Growth team is responsible for driving consumer growth via Dasher & Logistics initiatives. We incubate new bets across quality & reliability, speed, selection, and affordability, then work with cross-functional teams to scale them globally to drive top-line impact.
About the Role
The Strategy & Operations Associate role is for individuals with an ownership mentality who enjoy getting into the weeds and really understanding some of our toughest problems, developing a solution, collaborating across the organization, and executing to bring strategies to life. In this role, you will support initiatives that focus on driving growth by giving consumers speed when it matters to them, unlocking growth through step-change quality improvements, and testing new selection and affordability bets powered by our logistics platform. You’ll form hypotheses on how to address consumer problems, test new bets to solve these problems, and then partner with product, engineering, analytics, marketing and other cross-functional teams to scale up these solutions globally.
You will report into our Strategy & Operations Manager on our Logistics Growth team.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…
- Analyze - Break down data to identify trends across different product lines and get to the lowest level of detail
- Experiment - Use a data-driven approach and deep market knowledge to identify improvement opportunities, run pilots and make our business 1% better everyday
- Influence - Work cross-functionally across multiple teams teams to bring solutions to life, such as Product, Analytics, Engineering, and Marketing
- Grow professionally - This is a growing team, and there is room for professional development and to own additional scope and special projects
We’re excited about you because…
- You have 1-2 years of work experience in banking, consulting, business operations, strategy, operations, technology, start-ups, or related experience
- You’re a problem solver – you can translate high-level goals into actionable plans, and you’re excited to get new bets from 0 → 1 and then 1 → 100
- You’re analytical – you can dive into the data, independently structure an analysis, and draw the most important insights
- You have advanced Excel skills (can maintain complex spreadsheets). Bonus points for SQL skills – not required to apply but you should be excited to at least learn this on the job
- You’re a generalist – you seek exposure to different types of problems and want to try your hand at different sides of the business
- You are a self-starter – you have a bias towards action and excel in a fast-paced, ever changing environment. You love getting things done
- You have a Bachelor's degree
We expect this position to be filled by 3/20/26.
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Compensation
The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the pay range listed below and is determined based on job-related factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. Base salary is localized according to an employee’s work location. Ranges are market-dependent and may be modified in the future.
In addition to base salary, the compensation for this role includes opportunities for equity grants. Talk to your recruiter for more information.
DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.
To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.
See below for paid time off details:
- For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
- For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.g. about 5.8 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 2.9 hours/month if working 20 hours/week).
About DoorDash
At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery, and we are looking for team members who can help us go from a company that is known as the place you order food to a company that people turn to for any and all goods.
DoorDash is growing rapidly and changing constantly, which gives our team members the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and own their careers. We're committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks including premium healthcare, wellness expense reimbursement, paid parental leave and more.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non-Discrimination: In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
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