Associate Manager, Retail Partnerships

About the Team

The New Verticals Business Development team is a small, fast-paced, high-performing group responsible for establishing, managing and scaling new lines of business at DoorDash in the retail and logistics space.

You’ll leverage AI-powered insights, data-driven signals, and emerging tools to shape strategy, inform decision-making, identify opportunities, and drive growth across complex, enterprise-level engagements. By integrating AI and data-enabled analysis into day-to-day workflows, you’ll improve prioritization, execution, and business impact while partnering cross-functionally to translate evolving platform and AI capabilities into clear, tangible value for partners and the business.

About the Role

Your role will be focused on building out a team while managing and scaling enterprise level partnerships in the retail and logistics space. This role will get you in at the ground floor and operate at “start up” pace for one of DoorDash’s fastest and most promising new bets. As Associate Manager, Retail Partnerships you will report into the Senior Manager of Retail Partnerships in our Merchant Business Development organization.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

• Manage and cultivate enterprise relationships with leading retailers and ecommerce logistics players that will drive step change growth for DoorDash
• Lead renewals and upsell opportunities with existing merchant partners
• Shape product roadmap and go-to-market strategies based on merchant feedback
• Serve as the liaison between our partners and DoorDash leadership, product, legal, operations, and logistics teams
• Inform goals for growth and revenue (and its proxies); and advise on associated business resource needs
• Identify and pursue creative growth opportunities within the Drive organization

We’re excited about you because…

• You have 8+ years experience in early stage business development, account management, client success, or strategic partnerships in technology or high growth / early stage startups
• You have a Bachelor's degreeYou have experience negotiating/building commercial deals and partnerships
• You have retail, ecommerce, or logistics industry experience
• You are entrepreneurially minded with a nose for opportunity and risk
• You are comfortable making decisions based on imperfect data
• You are a collaborator, and consensus builder
• You set and communicate clear visions and strategies for your teams
• You are naturally optimistic, but not blinded by conviction
• You cultivate mutually beneficial relationships

• Experience leveraging data, AI-informed insights, and emerging AI tools to drive strategic decisions, enhance productivity, and improve outcomes in complex business environments.
• Strong ability to interpret AI-generated insights, synthesize them into clear, actionable recommendations and executive-level narratives, and influence stakeholders.
• Baseline fluency in AI concepts, with a willingness to continuously learn and adopt new technologies as AI capabilities become increasingly embedded in workflows, products, and customer interactions.

Compensation

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.

DoorDash 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). DoorDash 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).

The national base pay range for this position within the United States, including Illinois and Colorado.

$110,600 — $162,800 USD

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.

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