Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Network planning & Warehouse Strategy & Operations

About the Team

Door Dash Drive is our company's hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers and retailers across the United States, Canada and Australia. The Fulfillment team is responsible for driving the strategy, profitability, and operations across each vertical. In this fast-growing, high-energy environment, you'll drive innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality and efficiency.

The Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Drive Network Strategy will own the design and expansion of Dash Link’s network footprint. You’ll be responsible for building strategies that improve coverage, service quality, and cost efficiency while enabling Door Dash to compete orting to the Director of Strategy & Operations, this role is highly strategic, highly analytical, and central to shaping how we grow our logistics network.

This role can be based near a major logistics hub and requires 15–20% travel.

• Design network expansion – Build and execute coverage strategies to support Door Dash’s nationwide growth. Develop market entry plans, prioritize regions, and inform site selection with external partners.
• Optimize first-mile and middle-mile – Create induction and routing strategies that align with merchant expectations, improve reliability, and reduce transportation costs.
• Benchmark against industry leaders – Shape service standards that are competitive with national carriers, improving speed and consistency for our customers and merchants.
• Shape long‑term architecture – Identify opportunities for regional nodes, hub-to-hub transfers, and consolidation strategies that enable cost‑efficient scaling.
• Drive analytical rigor – Build and own models that project coverage, cost per unit, and service levels, ensuring strategy is grounded in data.
• Partner cross‑functionally – Collaborate with Transportation, Live Ops, Product, and Finance to execute launches, measure success, and ensure the network design scales with business growth.
• Lead execution at scale – Translate strategy into clear roadmaps, manage timelines for market launches, and deliver against milestones.

• You’re strategic and systems‑oriented – You can design networks that balance coverage, cost, and service while anticipating second‑ and third‑order effects.
• You’re highly analytical – You are fluent in data and modeling (Excel, SQL, Python, or network modeling tools) and use it to ground your decisions.
• You thrive in scaling environments – You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
• You’re cross‑functional – You’ve led initiatives that align operations, product, and finance around a shared strategy.
• You have deep logistics experience – 8+ years in transportation, supply chain strategy, consulting, or operations roles, with experience in carrier selection, SLA design, or network optimization.
• You deliver results – You’ve driven measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.
• Must be comfortable regularly exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options, making informed decisions, and determining appropriate courses of action within the scope of assigned responsibilities.

We expect to fill this position by 2/3/2026.

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…