Associate – Pharmacy Delivery Strategy & Operations

Job Description

Associate, New Verticals – Pharmacy Strategy & Operations | DoorDash

The Tone:
This is a full-time, individual contributor role at DoorDash, located in a hybrid model that involves spending a few days a month in person together, potentially connected to New York, NY. DoorDash is a technology and logistics company focused on empowering local economies by delivering a wide range of goods beyond just food. This position is crucial for launching and scaling DoorDash’s newest pharmacy delivery service, contributing directly to the growth engine of the New Verticals team by identifying strategic opportunities and driving operational excellence.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, New York, NY
• Pay: $74800–$110000 yearly
• Team: Individual contributor reporting into a Senior Manager
• Mission: Help launch and scale a pharmacy delivery service by identifying and executing against strategic opportunities for sustainable growth.
• Tech Stack: Excel, SQL, AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Gemini)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategize: Develop optimal strategies from first principles for serving dashers, merchants, and consumers within the pharmacy marketplace.
• Operate: Own and manage weekly metrics through tracking dashboards to ensure high-quality operations and drive desired outcomes.
• Analyze: Build economic, operational, and strategic models using Excel and SQL to evaluate programs and experiments, increasingly using AI for acceleration.
• Experiment: Transform strategic plans into operational experiments, product features, and net-new tooling that generate measurable results.
• Build with AI: Proactively use AI tools to automate manual processes, develop new prototypes, and create product visions, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in daily work.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Completed Bachelor’s Degree; 1-3+ years of experience in highly analytical, cross-functional cultures such as tech, operations, strategy, consulting, or banking.
• Experience: 1-3+ years succeeding in environments requiring strong analytical capabilities and cross-functional collaboration; comfortable pulling data using SQL and building models in Excel.
• Skills: Strong analytical abilities, problem-solving from first principles, an entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action, comfort with ambiguity and rapid change, and a proactive approach to experimenting with AI tools.
• Ownership: A strong sense of ownership over work product and outcomes, always seeking opportunities for improvement.