Associate Manager, New Verticals

About the Team DoorDash is building the future of local commerce through New Verticals, including grocery, convenience, retail, and other emerging categories. Our International New Verticals team supports the growth and development of these businesses across Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (“CANZ”). Our team partners across Operations, Product, and Finance to develop strategies that support sustainable growth across Canada. About the Role We are hiring a data-driven and entrepreneurial Associate Manager, International New Verticals Strategy & Operations to lead strategy, experimentation, and go-to-market execution for fulfillment cost and profitability initiatives. Your primary focus will be initiatives that improve costs and variable profit and the long-term economics of our New Verticals businesses. This may include dasher and operational efficiency, pricing accuracy, and other product or platform investments. You will own initiatives across the full product lifecycle: defining the problem, sizing the opportunity, developing and executing solutions, and measuring results after rollout. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Develop strategy. Use insights, market context, data analysis, and financial modeling to identify and prioritize opportunities that improve the unit economics of our international New Verticals businesses.Lead experimentation. Design and execute pilots and experiments, partnering with Analytics, Product, Engineering, Finance and Accounting to develop robust cost / profitability problem statements, define success criteria, and translate findings into product and operations recommendations.Own end-to-end execution. Lead initiatives from initial planning through rollout, including defining the target audience, positioning, market readiness, operating changes, communications, training, dependencies, and launch timelinesAnalyze performance and influence decisions. Build SQL-based reporting and analytical frameworks to evaluate opportunities, measure performance, and inform investment and prioritization decisions. Lead, collaborate and Influence. Partner with and influence cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product, analytics and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line. We’re excited about you because… You have 4+ years of experience in product operations, product strategy, business operations, strategy and operations, consulting, or a related field. You have led complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced or high-growth environment. You can structure ambiguous problems, identify the most important questions, and translate them into clear plans, decisions, and deliverables. You are comfortable influencing Product, Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders without direct authority. You have experience designing experiments, evaluating results, and using insights to make strategic recommendations. You are analytically…