Doordashusa
Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations
San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will convert frontier AI advancements into shipped products and scalable infrastructure. You will operate across research, product, and operations to move from discovery to deployment. The role involves owning revenue-driving AI initiatives and leading business planning cycles.
What you will do
- Reimagine core experiences through AI by partnering with merchants, sales, support, product, and engineering teams.
- Own revenue-driving AI initiatives as the accountable business owner.
- Lead business planning cycles and develop go-to-market strategies.
- Oversee execution through project plans, resource allocation, and KPI tracking.
- Develop new business metrics and measurement frameworks.
- Drive AI adoption by enabling non-technical teams with enterprise tools and workflows.
- Build scalable AI foundations including evaluation datasets, guardrails, and monitoring systems.
- Operationalize frontier technologies from external partners.
- Lead rapid experimentation cycles to validate product-market fit.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in finance, management consulting, business operations, business analytics, or high-growth/early-stage startup environments
- Exceptional communicator and operator
- Strong analytical thinker
- Hands-on experience leveraging AI tooling (Claude Codex, Codex, Cursor etc) in day-to-day work
Nice to have
- Direct experience productizing LLM/ML systems (shipping features, building eval datasets, or running model-performance feedback loops)
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Wellness benefits
- Commuter benefits match
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Disability and basic life insurance
- Family-forming assistance
- Mental health program
About the company
DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. Its mission is to empower local economies.