Associate Manager, Ads New Ventures - Strategy & Operations

About the Team

Our Ads team operates at the intersection of e-commerce and advertising, surfacing and monetizing relevant content that benefits our core Advertiser and Consumer audiences. On the Ads New Ventures team, our mission is to design, test, launch, and scale new business lines + products to help Advertisers & Consumers thrive on the platform.

As an Associate Manager, you’ll help scope, test, and operate the next generation of Door Dash's new advertising businesses, products, and services. You will report to the Senior Manager, Ads New Ventures, and lead cross-functional collaboration between Door Dash’s operations, sales, marketing, product, design, research, engineering and analytics teams to deliver our boldest opportunities in the Ads space.

You’ll have the opportunity to help define new bets based on user needs, build MVPs, set + operationalize GTM strategy, collect live insights, improve operational performance, and influence strategic build, buy, partner decisions. This role is your chance to grow into the GM of bold ambitious ideas.

• Build – Conceptualize, build, and launch new bets at Door Dash
• Strategize – Shape the business unit strategy, influence the product vision, and develop GTM strategy for adoption
• Experiment – Scope tests and experiments to help us answer questions that require new data
• Execute – Drive pilot and build plans in partnership with cross-functional teams
• Analyze – Build models to evaluate product success and set new goals
• Influence – Build consensus among cross-functional partners, such as Product, Engineering, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and Analytics teams as we grow ventures from idea to reality

• You have 5+ years of experience in strategy & operations / product management / management consulting / mergers & acquisitions or related experience (preferable in the advertising or ad tech industry)
• You have a proven track record leading 0→1 projects, independently identifying, scoping, and proving performance for high potential concepts.
• You’re energized by diving into difficult problems with first principles and working cross-functionally with multi-disciplinary teams.
• You’re a logic & data-driven problem solver that can leverage Excel/Google Sheets to derive answers (SQL experience is a plus)
• You have a strong growth mindset.

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.

Door Dash 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). Door Dash 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).

$105,400 — $155,000 USD

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