Associate Manager, New Verticals - DoorDash, Vancouver

About the role

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. We are hiring a data-driven and entrepreneurial Associate Manager, International New Verticals Strategy and 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, 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.

Day-to-day

As an Associate Manager focusing on strategy and operations, you will engage in the following responsibilities:

• Develop strategy by using 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 by designing and executing pilots and experiments, partnering with Analytics, Product, Engineering, Finance and Accounting to develop robust cost and profitability problem statements, define success criteria, and translate findings into product and operations recommendations.
• Own end-to-end execution by leading initiatives from initial planning through rollout, including defining the target audience, positioning, market readiness, operating changes, communications, training, dependencies, and launch timelines.
• Analyze performance and influence decisions by building SQL-based reporting and analytical frameworks to evaluate opportunities, measure performance, and inform investment and prioritization decisions.
• Lead, collaborate, and influence by partnering with cross-functional teams including growth, quality, finance, product, analytics, and engineering to launch initiatives to the finish line.

Requirements

To be successful in this technology role at DoorDash, you should meet the following qualifications:

• 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 strong and comfortable working with large datasets, building financial models, and using SQL to answer business questions.
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator who can distill complex product and technical concepts for different audiences.
• You are operationally rigorous and able to manage launch timelines, dependencies, risks, and market readiness across multiple workstreams.
• You hold a bachelor’s degree.

Why you'll love it here

DoorDash offers a robust compensation and benefits package designed to support employee well-being across Canada:

• Base salary range between $116,000 and $145,000 CAD supplemented by opportunities for equity grants.
• A comprehensive benefits package for regular employees including paid time off, paid parental leave, a wellness benefit, and several paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and basic life insurance for full-time employees.
• An RRSP including an employer match and a mental health program, among others.