DoorDash
Senior Manager, Dasher & Logistics - Network planning & Warehouse Strategy & Ope
DoorDash, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
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. This role reports to the Director of Strategy & Operations, is highly strategic, highly analytical, and central to shaping how we grow our logistics network. It can be based near a major logistics hub and requires 15–20% travel.
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 & Expectations
Strategic and systems‑oriented – 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.
Thrives in scaling environments – Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
Cross‑functional – Led initiatives that 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.
Deliver results – Driven measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.
Disciplined judgment – Comfortable exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options and determining appropriate courses of action.
Compensation Base salary: $170,000 – $250,000 USD (localized by work location). Opportunities for equity grants are available.
Benefits DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and sick leave, medical, dental, and vision coverage, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family‑forming assistance, and a mental health program.
Additional Information We expect to fill this position by 2/3/2026.
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior; Employment type: Full‑time; Job function: Management and Manufacturing; Industries: Software Development.
Statement of Non‑Discrimination No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on protected categories, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. We also seek to prevent subtler forms of inappropriate behavior.
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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. This role reports to the Director of Strategy & Operations, is highly strategic, highly analytical, and central to shaping how we grow our logistics network. It can be based near a major logistics hub and requires 15–20% travel.
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 & Expectations
Strategic and systems‑oriented – 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.
Thrives in scaling environments – Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building solutions in uncharted territory.
Cross‑functional – Led initiatives that 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.
Deliver results – Driven measurable improvements in cost, service, or coverage at scale.
Disciplined judgment – Comfortable exercising discretion and independent judgment in performing job duties, including evaluating options and determining appropriate courses of action.
Compensation Base salary: $170,000 – $250,000 USD (localized by work location). Opportunities for equity grants are available.
Benefits DoorDash offers a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and sick leave, medical, dental, and vision coverage, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family‑forming assistance, and a mental health program.
Additional Information We expect to fill this position by 2/3/2026.
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior; Employment type: Full‑time; Job function: Management and Manufacturing; Industries: Software Development.
Statement of Non‑Discrimination No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on protected categories, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. We also seek to prevent subtler forms of inappropriate behavior.
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