Manager, Finance & Strategy - Consumer

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About the Team

The Strategic Finance team is responsible for accelerating the growth of our business by identifying and implementing new opportunities and solutions. We partner with teams across the company to improve the profitability, scalability and defensibility of our business model. We’re looking to hire strategic thinkers who can model the future, solve complex problems, and collaborate effectively to help carry projects from conception through execution. In a typical day, you may extract insights from data, build business cases for new products, and work cross-functionally to design and launch pilots. In this role you’ll have the rare opportunity to help define and lead some of the most impactful initiatives we undertake as a company.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Manager who will work specifically on DoorDash consumer initiatives. This is a unique role with opportunity to make immediate impact through identifying, sizing, proposing, and executing major company initiatives. The right candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills to influence data-driven business decisions and optimize investments. You will combine your obsession for DoorDash customers with knowledge of the business and data to become a trusted business partner throughout the organization and lead projects from idea generation through operational execution.

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will…

  • Collaborate with key stakeholders on the marketing, strategy & operations, product, and analytics teams to accelerate customer acquisition and marketing effectiveness
  • Drive strategic decision making - utilize data to improve visibility into customer performance and make recommendations for new business opportunities
  • Lead quarterly and annual planning process for marketing investments 
  • Identify and quantify key risks & opportunities in our business
  • Partner with accounting and corporate finance teams to understand and communicate month-end variances to plan for financial close reporting 
  • Support special projects to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies
  • Operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that is constantly evolving

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years of strategic finance, corporate finance or investment banking experience at a high-growth technology startup or well-established company
  • Ability to influence cross-functional partners at all levels within an organization
  • Proven success managing budgets for major functional areas within an organization
  • Advanced Excel & financial modeling skills. Able to build robust financial models used by teams throughout the company, and to size opportunities and build business cases for pursuing new initiatives
  • Basic SQL proficiency (or willingness to learn). Able to manipulate large data sets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and meaningfully improve our understanding of our business through this process
  • Experience with marketplace, logistics or consumer business a plus

Why You’ll Love Working at DoorDash

  • We are a technologically and data-driven business
  • We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of “Delivering Good”
  • We love solving problems, thinking creatively and trying new things
  • We believe in autonomy & taking initiative
  • We are challenged, developed and have meaningful impact
  • We take what we do seriously. We don’t take ourselves seriously
  • We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas
  • We offer competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
  • You will be proud to say that you work for DoorDash and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day

About DoorDash

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 3,300 cities across the United States and Canada. 

We want to share our revolutionary logistics technology with every business around the world, to streamline how our cities and local economies work. Make no mistake, it isn’t going to be easy, and our mission isn’t for the faint of heart. But if you’re daring, and you want to make a dent, let’s chat. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

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Our office is located in the SOMA district, walking distance to many restaurants, bars, and public transportation.

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