Associate Manager, Product Partnerships - Remote Eligible

Associate Manager, Product Partnerships

The Product Partnership team accelerates the growth and innovation of DoorDash's Marketplace and Commerce Platform (Drive, Online Ordering, Net New Bets, etc) businesses by sourcing and expanding technology partnerships. This team works directly with senior leadership across DoorDash to assess the competitive landscape and make strategic decisions about building, buying, or partnering as we decide how to bring the best suite of services to our merchants.

The team works on some of the highest priority and visibility projects that directly impact the P&L for general managers. You will be empowered to challenge the status quo, identify ways to move the needle and take charge of finding scalable solutions to drive growth for the platform with a large portfolio of middleware providers (technology integration partners, such as POS or online ordering aggregators). Not only will you formulate strategy and build tactical plans, you will be responsible for ensuring its execution and achieving tangible outcomes. Finally, it is a highly cross-functional role giving you great exposure to many facets of the business and increasing your network of highly competent thinkers and doers.

About the Role

You will report into the Manager of our Product Partnerships Team, and play a pivotal role in driving company growth, by optimizing and growing our store penetration and delivery volume from a large portfolio of our integration partners. Specifically, you will be responsible for managing a cohort of 300+ integration partners, identifying scalable solutions to grow volume from these partners and continuously looking for ways to improve operational efficiencies.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and executing on scalable solutions to grow delivery volume from 300+ unmanaged middleware providers (MWPs)
• Continuously look for ways to improve operational efficiencies and optimize our unit economics with these MWPs
• Working closely with our Strategy & Ops, Legal and Integrations teams to support pricing conversations, including conducting price/volume sensitivity analyses and P&L forecasting
• Devising and running SQL queries and analyzing performance and efficiency data at the lowest level of detail in order to provide strategic insights or recommendations
• Diving deep into data to analyze weekly performance to provide meaningful commentary, strategic insights and action plans to leadership, including P&L owners and general managers
• Leading high-visibility strategic initiatives and task forces that impact our large portfolio of middleware partners, such as mass communications and Drive updates
• Building go-to-market plans for business strategies and scalable processes, such as pricing, merchant onboarding, new product feature adoption and marketing initiatives
• Managing multiple projects at once, ensuring that all team members and cross-functional partners are bought in and adhering to project timelines
• Tracking results of marketing campaigns aimed to increase store penetration and delivery volume, and provide analysis against pre-defined key metrics
• Designing a best-in-class operating playbook to drive delivery volume and profitability
• Lead ad hoc projects as determined by your Manager or Senior Manager

The best candidates will:

• have extremely strong analytical skills with an intellectual curiosity to challenge and dissect data
• demonstrate an entrepreneurial spirit to find creative solutions to overcome seemingly impossible challenges
• understand the importance of ownership and bias for action
• be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment

You're Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will…

• Drive volume and improve profitability - responsible for top-line growth and identifying ways to improve unit economics
• Tackle challenging problems - tasked to grow volume in a scalable manner from a large portfolio of unmanaged integration partners
• Lead high visibility and high impact projects - address Drive's most unique and challenging questions
• Own business strategy and outcomes — use data and insights to formulate strategy, provide recommendations and develop operational plans to share with leadership team
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders - work with various teams, such as Product, Engineering, Finance, Analytics and Legal, to drive scalable growth
• Execute on plans - take responsibility for implementation plans and go-to-market of new product initiatives
• Deep dive into data to solve problems - pull and work with complex datasets; SQL experience required

We're Excited About You Because You…

• Have 2-4 years of experience in a strategy, operations, financial services, investment banking, consulting, technology or business analyst type role
• Are comfortable with building and running SQL queries to analyze business performance
• Possess strong analytical skills and bring a structured approach to ambiguous data sets
• Can think strategically and creatively to come up with solutions to complex problems
• Have experience in bringing new products to market and scaling business processes
• Enjoy working with cross-functional teams and have a strong penchant for influencing others to achieve desired outcomes
• Display extreme ownership over multiple projects and workstreams, while ruthlessly prioritizing what will actually move the needle
• Are a self-starter; you aren't afraid of failure, have a bias towards action and can thrive in a fast environment
• Oscillate easily from strategic considerations to tactical execution
• Are humble and hungry; you're willing to get your hands dirty and are open to feedback
• Demonstrate strong communication and reporting skills; can summarize complex issues into succinct problem statements and can provide high-level business commentary to leadership
• Bachelor's degree required

We expect this position to be filled by 10/13/2025.

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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$115,700 - $170,100 USD