Associate Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations

DoorDash’s Merchant Profitability Team is focused on building new products, services, and businesses to help restaurants be more profitable. By leveraging DoorDash’s scale, logistics infrastructure, and merchant relationships, the Merchant team is able to meaningfully improve restaurants’ bottom line – directly supporting DoorDash’s mission to empower and grow local economies. 

We are looking for a motivated and hands-on operator to own critical aspects of a new business focused on reducing restaurants’ costs. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end supply chain function—from sourcing and vendor management to demand forecasting, inventory planning, and logistics execution. You will own relationships with key external partners including suppliers and third-party logistics providers, and ensure we are able to deliver high in-stock rates while maintaining strong unit economics. You will also partner internally with stakeholders including Sales, Finance, Legal, Product, and Engineering to build a reliable and cost-efficient supply chain. 

This is a highly cross-functional and externally-facing role that requires strong ownership, analytical rigor, and the ability to operate in ambiguity while building from 0→1.

• Own and scale a critical pillar of a 0→1 business – Lead the end-to-end supply chain function including vendor management, forecasting, inventory, and logistics.
• Build and operate a reliable, cost-efficient supply chain – Ensure we consistently deliver high in-stock rates while optimizing for cost, speed, and working capital.
• Own and develop key external partnerships – Manage relationships with suppliers and logistics partners, driving performance across cost, quality, and reliability.
• Drive strategic decision-making through data – Develop forecasts and operational plans, evaluate tradeoffs, and continuously improve supply chain performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to shape the business – Partner with Assortment, Growth, Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering to align supply with demand and enable growth.
• Build from first principles – Create processes, tools, and playbooks to scale a new and evolving business within DoorDash.

• You have 5+ years of experience in strategy, business development, operations, technology, banking, consulting, or high-growth or early-stage startups. Experience in sourcing, 3PL operations, and inventory & demand planning is a plus. 
• You are an operator and builder – you are comfortable working in ambiguity, getting to the lowest level of detail, building processes from scratch, and scaling them over time.
• You are analytical and data-driven – you can run analyses and manipulate datasets; SQL experience is strongly preferred.
• You are a clear communicator and relationship builder – you can influence both internal stakeholders and external partners.
• You have business acumen – you understand how supply chain decisions impact cost, margin, and customer experience.
• You have a strong sense of ownership – you take responsibility for outcomes and move quickly to solve problems.
• You have a bias for action and thrive in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.
• You are excited to leverage AI to improve productivity and decision-making, and are ready to learn and adapt alongside this evolving technology. 
• You have a Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• You're comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and problem-solving. You should be actively exploring and applying AI in your day-to-day work, bringing a beginner’s mindset and curiosity as you continuously learn and adapt alongside evolving technology.

We expect this position to be filled by 5/10/2026.

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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.

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