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Associate Manager, AI Research Lab Strategy & Operations

DoorDash - Multiple cities

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Compensation: $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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• 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 (https://careers.doordash.com/).
• 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.

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