Senior Manager, Ads & Promotions Analytics

Senior Manager, Ads & Promotions Analytics

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Door Dash Ads will become the most transparent and effective advertising channel for merchants, brands, and ad buyers/agencies of all sizes to market their offerings to engaged local audiences. We build a variety of products that are easy to use and confidently generate incremental value for advertisers, while also helping consumer discover and engage with brands they love and save money.

As the analytics team our goal is to advance product development, understanding of the business, and identify opportunities for the team to drive towards our north stars.

As the leader of a large, high-performing team of data scientists, you’ll own the analytics strategy for Door Dash Ads—one of the company’s fastest-growing and most dynamic businesses. You’ll guide a team spanning multiple levels of seniority to drive insights and decisions across a multi-sided marketplace, optimizing across consumer and merchant outcomes. In your first few months, you’ll establish clear priorities, align cross‑functional partners in product, engineering, sales, and strategy, and set the analytical vision for sustainable growth.

Success in this role means delivering measurable business impact, elevating the quality of analytics across the organization, and building systems that balance advertiser ROI, consumer experience, and platform health. You will report into the Director of Analytics on our Ads team in our Ads & Promos organization.

• Lead and develop a high‑performing analytics team, providing mentorship, feedback, and clear career development pathways.
• Define and drive the analytical and product roadmap by setting measurable goals and aligning cross‑functional teams around success metrics.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and go‑to‑market teams to uncover insights, optimize funnels, and inform high‑impact decisions.
• Apply advanced analytical methods—such as cohort analysis, regression modeling, and experimentation—to identify growth opportunities and guide strategy.
• Thrive in a fast‑paced, high‑pressure environment, staying creative and resourceful in solving complex problems with limited resources.

• You have 8+ years of experience in data analytics, consulting, or a related field, with the executive communication skills required to translate data into business impact.
• You’re an empathetic and effective people manager who prioritizes coaching, development, and team alignment.
• You bring deep expertise in SQL, A/B testing, and statistical analysis (e.g. hypothesis testing, regression modeling, experimentation).
• You have hands‑on experience with funnel optimization, user segmentation, and time‑series analysis, and can guide others in applying these techniques.
• You’re scrappy and strategic, able to navigate ambiguity, influence executive stakeholders, and deliver results under pressure.

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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.

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