About the job
About the US Marketplace Team
The US Marketplace team at DoorDash focuses on expanding our presence in cities across the country. Our work helps customers discover top local options, supports merchants in growing their businesses, and offers dashers flexible earning opportunities.
Role Overview: Director of Strategy & Operations - Local Markets
The Director of Local Markets leads marketplace growth across multiple U. S. regions. This role partners closely with the Growth and Markets team to strengthen collaboration between marketing, sales, product, finance, and analytics. The goal: launch new offerings and raise service levels that help local markets thrive.
This position shapes local growth strategies, runs experiments, finds partnership opportunities, builds relationships with external partners, and manages a roadmap to improve the local marketplace experience.
What You Will Do
- Lead a team from day one, developing analytical skills and strong execution.
- Build business development efforts by cultivating relationships with growth partners and key merchants.
- Work across the US Marketplace Organization to develop strategic plans, secure resources, and improve user experiences in local markets.
- Collaborate with Product, Marketing, Analytics, Engineering, and Operations to identify and develop new growth initiatives.
- Use both quantitative and qualitative data, including AI tools, to inform strategy and direction.
- Turn concepts into real-world results, seeing projects through from idea to execution.
- Support ongoing improvement across the business.
What We’re Looking For
- More than 10 years of experience in strategy and operations, ideally within a high-growth setting.
Locations
This role is based in one of the following cities: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL; Atlanta, GA; Denver, CO; Boston, MA; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Miami, FL.
