About the Team

New Verticals is a lean team in growth mode at DoorDash that is building and scaling new categories for our customers, leveraging the DoorDash platform. New Verticals includes over 100K grocery, convenience, alcohol, retail and DashMart businesses. The Affordability team supports our New Verticals platform, with a focus on making DoorDash accessible for all consumers. 

About the Role

You will be responsible for setting our item-first pricing strategy across New Verticals (Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail) businesses. You will be responsible for defining, executing and optimizing growth initiatives driven by competitive pricing, promotions and other growth levers. You will dive into data to understand consumer spend behaviors and business performance at the lowest level of detail. You will work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other strategy & operations teams. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Build. You’ll have your fingerprints all over DoorDash’s New Verticals business, across grocery, convenience, retail, alcohol and more. You’ll do whatever it takes to launch, get 1% better every day, and scale something completely new. This means everything from high-level strategy to nitty-gritty operational details. Strategize. From first principles, you’ll develop the optimal strategy for best serving our customers.  Experiment. You’ll transform strategies into operational experiments that create measurable and actionable outcomes, informing your larger initiative implementation plans. Analyze. You’ll assess the operational and financial impacts of your decisions, and iterate based on data. Lead and collaborate. You’ll work with a cross-functional team, including marketing, design, product, and operations to build this new line of business for DoorDash. We’re excited about you because… You solve problems from first principles. You’re excited to solve problems in innovative ways, and you resist “this is how it’s always been done” thinking. 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. No job is beneath you. You’re analytical. You let data win arguments, and you’re comfortable pulling your own data in SQL or modeling in Excel. You’re unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments You’re customer focused. You are able to identify consumer pain points, lead with the consumer front of mind and build go to market strategy to enhance our consumer experience.  You have 6-8+ years of experience. You’ve succeeded in high-performance cultures (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, banking, or a related experience).

 

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