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AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash.
About The Role
As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will …
- Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model.
- Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes.
- Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation, and KPI tracking.
- Develop new business metrics and measurement frameworks, including:
- Defining what should be measured and why
- Establishing performance thresholds using data-driven benchmarking
- Localizing metrics across geographies and market types
- Driving AI adoption across DoorDash by enabling non-technical teams with enterprise tools, workflows, and experimentation sandboxes that integrate AI into daily operations.
- Building scalable AI foundations, including evaluation datasets, guardrails, monitoring systems, and strategies for custom foundation models that ensure safety, reliability, and long-term leverage.
- Operationalizing frontier technologies from external partners, translating research breakthroughs into revenue-generating product capabilities and production systems.
- Leading rapid experimentation cycles, validating product-market fit, measuring business impact, and ensuring AI initiatives translate into tangible outcomes.
This role requires an entrepreneurial leader who thrives in ambiguity and can bridge technical depth with structured execution. You should be comfortable engaging directly with merchants, collaborating with engineers on model evaluation strategies, structuring strategic AI partnerships, and diving into metrics to diagnose performance.
We’re excited about you because…
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in finance, management consulting, business operations, business analytics, or high-growth/early-stage startup environments
- Exceptional communicator and operator who can partner directly with in-field merchants, sales, and support teams to uncover workflow pain points, translate them into AI-native product opportunities, and drive adoption across internal stakeholders
- Strong analytical thinker who thrives in ambiguity and 0-to-1 environments — able to extract clear, actionable recommendations and measurement frameworks out of fast-moving, frontier-AI research and bring structure to unstructured problems
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI tooling (Claude Codex, Codex, Cursor etc) in day-to-day work to accelerate discovery, prototype workflows, build eval datasets, and test hypotheses faster than traditional product cycles allow
- Direct experience productizing LLM/ML systems (shipping features, building eval datasets, or running model-performance feedback loops) is a strong plus
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. $124,000—$155,000 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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non-Discrimination:
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144.
Beware of recruitment scams: DASH Brands will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring — learn more about DASH Brands' legitimate recruiting process at careersatdoordash.com/recruitment-scam-awareness.
About The Team
AI Research Lab is one of DoorDash’s frontier innovation hubs, focused on building the foundation for an AI-native future across our three core audiences: consumers, merchants, and dashers. As AI capabilities accelerate, the AI Research Lab operates at the center of technical exploration and real-world execution — connecting frontier model research, internal platform investments, operator teams, and strategic external partners. Our mission is to translate cutting-edge AI research into scalable, production-ready systems that drive measurable business impact. We combine deep technical rigor with strong operational execution to ensure that breakthrough capabilities become durable competitive advantages for DoorDash.
About The Role
As an Associate Manager, Strategy & Operations on our AI Research Lab, you will play a central role in converting frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from early discovery and experimentation to deployment and impact. This role sits at the intersection of customer insight, technical innovation, and business execution. You will help define and scale the Lab’s most important bets while building the foundations that enable AI applications to compound over time.
You’re Excited About This Opportunity Because You Will …
- Reimagining core experiences through AI, such as the merchant journey, by partnering directly with in-field merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams. You will help unify major initiatives into a coherent, AI-native interaction model.
- Own revenue-driving AI initiatives, operating as the accountable business owner for high-priority AI bets and ensuring clear linkage between technical progress and financial outcomes.
- Lead business planning cycles, developing go-to-market strategies for AI-powered products and capabilities, overseeing execution through structured project plans, resource allocation, and KPI tracking.
- Develop new business metrics and measurement frameworks, including:
- Defining what should be measured and why
- Establishing performance thresholds using data-driven benchmarking
- Localizing metrics across geographies and market types
- Driving AI adoption across DoorDash by enabling non-technical teams with enterprise tools, workflows, and experimentation sandboxes that integrate AI into daily operations.
- Building scalable AI foundations, including evaluation datasets, guardrails, monitoring systems, and strategies for custom foundation models that ensure safety, reliability, and long-term leverage.
- Operationalizing frontier technologies from external partners, translating research breakthroughs into revenue-generating product capabilities and production systems.
- Leading rapid experimentation cycles, validating product-market fit, measuring business impact, and ensuring AI initiatives translate into tangible outcomes.
This role requires an entrepreneurial leader who thrives in ambiguity and can bridge technical depth with structured execution. You should be comfortable engaging directly with merchants, collaborating with engineers on model evaluation strategies, structuring strategic AI partnerships, and diving into metrics to diagnose performance.
We’re excited about you because…
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience in finance, management consulting, business operations, business analytics, or high-growth/early-stage startup environments
- Exceptional communicator and operator who can partner directly with in-field merchants, sales, and support teams to uncover workflow pain points, translate them into AI-native product opportunities, and drive adoption across internal stakeholders
- Strong analytical thinker who thrives in ambiguity and 0-to-1 environments — able to extract clear, actionable recommendations and measurement frameworks out of fast-moving, frontier-AI research and bring structure to unstructured problems
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI tooling (Claude Codex, Codex, Cursor etc) in day-to-day work to accelerate discovery, prototype workflows, build eval datasets, and test hypotheses faster than traditional product cycles allow
- Direct experience productizing LLM/ML systems (shipping features, building eval datasets, or running model-performance feedback loops) is a strong plus
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. $124,000—$155,000 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.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We’re committed to growing and empowering a more inclusive community within our company, industry, and cities. That’s why we hire and cultivate diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe that true innovation happens when everyone has room at the table and the tools, resources, and opportunity to excel.
Statement of Non-Discrimination:
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at DoorDash. We value a diverse workforce – people who identify as women, non-binary or gender non-conforming, LGBTQIA+, American Indian or Native Alaskan, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, differently-abled, caretakers and parents, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Thank you to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and any other state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.
If you need any accommodations, please inform your recruiting contact upon initial connection.
Notice to Applicants for Jobs Located in NYC or Remote Jobs Associated With Office in NYC Only
We used Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional process for jobs in NYC and certain features may qualify it as an AEDT in NYC. As part of the hiring and/or promotion process, we provided Covey with job requirements and candidate submitted applications. We began using Covey Scout for Inbound from August 21, 2023, through December 21, 2023. We resumed using Covey Scout for Inbound again on June 29, 2024, and ceased using Covey Scout for Inbound on April 30, 2026. The Covey tool has been reviewed by an independent auditor. Results of the audit may be viewed here: https://getcovey.com/nyc-local-law-144.
Beware of recruitment scams: DASH Brands will never ask you to pay money or share sensitive financial information during hiring — learn more about DASH Brands' legitimate recruiting process at careersatdoordash.com/recruitment-scam-awareness.
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Frame your credentials around operational impact
DoorDash evaluates Strategy Operations Manager candidates on quantifiable business outcomes, not just functional experience. Before applying, reframe your resume around revenue impact, process improvements, and cross-functional projects you led, not just your day-to-day responsibilities.
Target verticals where DoorDash is actively scaling
DoorDash's Strategy Operations function expands fastest in new verticals like grocery, convenience, and advertising. Positioning your experience around marketplace dynamics, partner growth, or new business categories puts your application in front of teams with active headcount.
Confirm your visa type early in the process
DoorDash sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, and H-1B1 visa among others, but each pathway has different timing requirements. If you're on OPT with a cap-gap window approaching, flag your timeline to the recruiter before the offer stage so legal can plan accordingly.
Understand how DoorDash structures the H-1B filing
For H-1B roles, DoorDash files as the sponsoring employer through USCIS, and the job must qualify as a specialty occupation tied to a specific degree field. Strategy and operations roles typically satisfy this through business, economics, or engineering degree requirements in the job posting.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open roles by sponsorship eligibility
Not every Strategy Operations Manager posting at DoorDash explicitly states visa sponsorship. Use Migrate Mate to surface roles at DoorDash that are verified for sponsorship, so you're only spending time on applications where your visa status won't be a blocker at offer stage.
Prepare for a timeline mismatch between offer and work authorization
If your current status requires a new petition, DoorDash's legal team will need lead time before your start date. H-1B transfers can take two to three months with standard processing, and premium processing through USCIS can shorten this to around 15 business days if the role is time-sensitive.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does DoorDash sponsor H-1B visas for Strategy Operations Managers?
Yes, DoorDash sponsors H-1B visas for Strategy Operations Manager roles. The position typically qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, as it generally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in business, economics, engineering, or a related field. DoorDash works with immigration counsel to handle the H-1B petition process directly, so you won't be navigating the USCIS filing on your own.
How do I apply for Strategy Operations Manager jobs at DoorDash?
Applications go through DoorDash's careers portal, but not all postings clearly indicate visa sponsorship availability. Migrate Mate filters Strategy Operations Manager openings at DoorDash by sponsorship eligibility, so you can identify the right roles before applying. The process typically involves a recruiter screen, a case study or analytical exercise, and multiple rounds of interviews focused on problem-solving and operational judgment.
Which visa types does DoorDash commonly use for Strategy Operations Manager roles?
DoorDash sponsors a range of visa types for this function, including H-1B, H-1B1 visa (for Chilean and Singaporean nationals), E-3 visa (for Australian nationals), TN visa (for Canadian and Mexican nationals under USMCA), and F-1 OPT and CPT for students transitioning from academic programs. The right pathway depends on your nationality, current status, and timeline.
What qualifications does DoorDash expect for Strategy Operations Manager candidates?
DoorDash typically looks for candidates with a background in consulting, investment banking, or high-growth operations, often with two to five years of post-graduate experience. Strong SQL proficiency and comfort with financial modeling are frequently required rather than preferred. For visa sponsorship purposes, your degree must align with the specialty occupation definition, so a business, economics, or quantitative field is the strongest foundation.
How do I manage the timing between a DoorDash offer and my visa filing?
The gap between receiving an offer and your authorized start date depends on your current visa status and the pathway being filed. H-1B transfers for candidates already in status can move faster than new cap-subject petitions. USCIS premium processing is available for H-1B filings and returns a decision within 15 business days. Raise your status and timeline with the DoorDash recruiter before the offer is finalized to avoid delays.