DoorDash
Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Network planning & Warehouse Strategy & Ope
DoorDash, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290
Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Network Planning & Warehouse Strategy & Operations
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About The Team
DoorDash Drive is our company's hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers and retailers across the United States, Canada and Australia. The Fulfillment team is responsible for driving the strategy, profitability, and operations across each vertical. In this fast-growing, high-energy environment, you'll drive innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality and efficiency.
About The Role
The Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Drive Network Strategy will own the design and expansion of DashLink’s network footprint. You’ll be responsible for building strategies that improve coverage, service quality, and cost efficiency while enabling DoorDash to compete at scale. Reporting to the Director of Strategy & Operations, this role is highly strategic, highly analytical, and central to shaping how we grow our logistics network. This role can be based near a major logistics hub and requires 15–20% travel.
Key Responsibilities
Design network expansion – Build and execute coverage strategies to support DoorDash’s nationwide growth. Develop market entry plans, prioritize regions, and inform site selection with external partners.
Optimize first-mile and middle-mile – Create induction and routing strategies that align with merchant expectations, improve reliability, and reduce transportation costs.
Benchmark against industry leaders – Shape service standards that are competitive with national carriers, improving speed and consistency for our customers and merchants.
Shape long-term architecture – Identify opportunities for regional nodes, hub-to-hub transfers, and consolidation strategies that enable cost-efficient scaling.
Drive analytical rigor – Build and own models that project coverage, cost per unit, and service levels, ensuring strategy is grounded in data.
Partner cross-functionally – Collaborate with Transportation, LiveOps, Product, and Finance to execute launches, measure success, and ensure the network design scales with business growth.
Lead execution at scale – Translate strategy into clear roadmaps, manage timelines for market launches, and deliver against milestones.
Qualifications
Strategic and systems-oriented – Ability to design networks that balance coverage, cost, and service while anticipating second- and third-order effects.
Highly analytical – Fluent in data and modeling (Excel, SQL, Python, or network modeling tools) and use it to ground decisions.
Experience in scaling environments – Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
Cross-functional lead – Proven ability to align operations, product, and finance around a shared strategy.
Deep logistics experience – 8+ years in transportation, supply chain strategy, consulting, or operations roles, with experience in carrier selection, SLA design, or network optimization.
Results-driven – Demonstrated measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.
Strong judgment – Comfortable exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $170,000—$250,000 USD, plus equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) with matching, 16 weeks paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, paid sick leave, medical, dental, vision, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program.
Paid Time Off
For salaried roles: flexible paid time off and 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; paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
EEO Statement
DoorDash is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or harass based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks.
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About The Team
DoorDash Drive is our company's hyper-growth platform team serving restaurants, grocers and retailers across the United States, Canada and Australia. The Fulfillment team is responsible for driving the strategy, profitability, and operations across each vertical. In this fast-growing, high-energy environment, you'll drive innovation while maintaining a strong focus on quality and efficiency.
About The Role
The Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Drive Network Strategy will own the design and expansion of DashLink’s network footprint. You’ll be responsible for building strategies that improve coverage, service quality, and cost efficiency while enabling DoorDash to compete at scale. Reporting to the Director of Strategy & Operations, this role is highly strategic, highly analytical, and central to shaping how we grow our logistics network. This role can be based near a major logistics hub and requires 15–20% travel.
Key Responsibilities
Design network expansion – Build and execute coverage strategies to support DoorDash’s nationwide growth. Develop market entry plans, prioritize regions, and inform site selection with external partners.
Optimize first-mile and middle-mile – Create induction and routing strategies that align with merchant expectations, improve reliability, and reduce transportation costs.
Benchmark against industry leaders – Shape service standards that are competitive with national carriers, improving speed and consistency for our customers and merchants.
Shape long-term architecture – Identify opportunities for regional nodes, hub-to-hub transfers, and consolidation strategies that enable cost-efficient scaling.
Drive analytical rigor – Build and own models that project coverage, cost per unit, and service levels, ensuring strategy is grounded in data.
Partner cross-functionally – Collaborate with Transportation, LiveOps, Product, and Finance to execute launches, measure success, and ensure the network design scales with business growth.
Lead execution at scale – Translate strategy into clear roadmaps, manage timelines for market launches, and deliver against milestones.
Qualifications
Strategic and systems-oriented – Ability to design networks that balance coverage, cost, and service while anticipating second- and third-order effects.
Highly analytical – Fluent in data and modeling (Excel, SQL, Python, or network modeling tools) and use it to ground decisions.
Experience in scaling environments – Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
Cross-functional lead – Proven ability to align operations, product, and finance around a shared strategy.
Deep logistics experience – 8+ years in transportation, supply chain strategy, consulting, or operations roles, with experience in carrier selection, SLA design, or network optimization.
Results-driven – Demonstrated measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.
Strong judgment – Comfortable exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $170,000—$250,000 USD, plus equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) with matching, 16 weeks paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off, paid sick leave, medical, dental, vision, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program.
Paid Time Off
For salaried roles: flexible paid time off and 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; paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
EEO Statement
DoorDash is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or harass based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits and perks.
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