Senior Manager, New Verticals - Search Strategy & Operations

The role

You will lead the Search team across New Verticals including Grocery, Convenience, Alcohol, and Retail. You will define, execute, and optimize product initiatives and manage a small team.

What you will do

• Define, execute and optimize product initiatives for search
• Work with product, engineering, and data science to launch experiences
• Analyze consumer behavior and measure impact using data
• Identify opportunities to improve search relevance and conversion
• Manage a small team
• Develop optimal strategy from first principles
• Transform strategies into operational experiments
• Assess operational and financial impacts of decisions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams

Required qualifications

• 8-12+ years of experience in high-performance cultures
• 2+ years of experience managing high-performing teams
• Ability to solve problems from first principles
• Ability to identify how to automate tasks using AI tools like Claude, Cursor, Gemini or Copilot
• Ability to operate at both high-level strategy and low-level detail
• Customer focused
• Ability to pull data in SQL or modeling in Excel
• Ability to understand technical concepts like ML models and engineering architecture
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, startup environments
• BS/BA Degree

Nice to have

• Business or engineering focused concentration
• MBA

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
• Equity grants

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that aims to empower local economies. They are expanding from food delivery to providing any and all goods.