Associate Manager, DashMart - Category Strategy & Operations

DoorDash's New Verticals organization focuses on accelerating one of our strategic pillars DashMart, our grocery and convenience delivery offering. We're building and scaling new ways to delight our customers, leveraging the DoorDash platform. The DashMart Category Management team owns the selection strategy for DashMart and is responsible for offering customers a best-in-class assortment at the right price.

About the Role

As an Associate Manager on our DashMart Strategy & Operations team, within the category management pod, you will act as the general manager and own the end-to-end strategy and performance of key retail categories across the US. In this role, you will lead assortment decisions, vendor partnerships, pricing strategy and category analytics to accelerate growth and profitability. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Finance, Pricing and Product to bring category strategies to life and continuously optimize performance.

You will report into the Manager, Category Management within our New Verticals Strategy & Operations team.

You're Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will

• Own. You will act as the General Manager for key Retail categories with end-to-end responsibility of category performance including: selection productivity, profitability, affordability and availability.
• Strategize. Own category strategy from first principles defining assortment architecture, SKU productivity targets, pricing tiers, vendor mix, and promotional approach to maximize growth and margin.
• 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 lead a team of two assortment specialists and partner with a cross-functional team, including local operations, supply chain, and space planning teams.

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 analytical. You let data win arguments, and you're comfortable pulling your own data in SQL or modeling in Excel.
• 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 unafraid of ambiguity. Rapid change and learning is exciting to you, and you thrive in ambiguous, startup environments.
• You have 4-6+ years of professional experience. You've succeeded in high-performance cultures (whether in tech, operations, strategy, consulting, manufacturing, automation, engineering, etc).
• Bonus points if you have 2+ years of experience with ecom, physical retail, or startup environments. Experience in category management or retail buying is preferred.
• You have completed your BS/BA Degree.

We expect this position to be filled by 4/20/26.

About DoorDash

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.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That's why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.