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Our Marketplace Strategy & Operations team is responsible for building, scaling and improving the way in which we provide Restaurant delivery. We build our restaurant selection, test 0 → 1 products to give merchants more opportunity to delight their consumers, and optimize ways to improve our marketplace to increase the return on investment our partners gain from partnering with DoorDash. This team focuses on all things Restaurants ranging from selection, to merchandising, to consumer strategy, to leveraging our logistics network in new ways, to so much more!
We are hiring a Manager to join the Meal Box team within Restaurants Strategy & Operations. In this role, you’ll act as a General Manager for live markets, owning performance, execution, and iteration across merchant relationships and meal quality. You’ll problem-solve how we scale hands-on merchant management into repeatable processes, lead a team of project managers, and identify new opportunities to unlock growth and efficiency as the program expands.
Meal Box is DoorDash’s most ambitious bet in the restaurant space–a bold new way to help customers replace cooking with craveable, high-quality meals at unbeatable value. We partner with standout restaurants in every neighborhood to co-create curated, filling meals that customers love and return to daily. With early success in multiple cities, we’re unlocking a category that has the potential to transform consumer behavior at scale. At full penetration in key markets, this is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
We operate in a hybrid model, so we spend some time in person and some time working remotely. You'll be expected to manage a team of project managers.
Have Ownership. You’ll visible goals that will drive both top-line and bottom-line performance of our core marketplace businessYou will collaborate. You’ll work in a highly collaborative and cross-functional environment by working with teams like Sales, Product, Analytics, Finance, Marketing, and more!Strategize. Bring new products & strategies to market, integrating net new value propositions into our restaurant ecosystem.Operate. You will become an expert on how to run a sustainable marketplace business, and what it takes to create value for Merchants, Dashers and Consumers..
You have 6-8+ years of experience in a problem solving role - Consulting, Tech, Banking, Food & Beverage, etc. You have a completed BA/BS degree in a quantitative field (engineering, finance, mathematics, business, etc.)You have experience building 0→1 bets. You’re resourceful and turn ambiguous ideas into action.You have a strong history of data analysis. You have experience with pulling your own data via SQL and/or open to learningYou are a collaborator. You have experience with stakeholder management across diverse audiences, from front-line doers to senior executives.
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.
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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.
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.
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The salary range for the Manager, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations position at Doordashusa is USD 136k+/yr.
The Manager, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations position at Doordashusa is based in New York, NY; New York. This is a hybrid position.
The Manager, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations position at Doordashusa requires 6-8 yrs exp.
Key skills for the Manager, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations position at Doordashusa include: sql.
Manager, Marketplace - Restaurant Growth Strategy & Operations
Doordashusa · USD 136k+/yr · Hybrid